Lemma | morphological adjective |
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Categoria grammaticale | N |
Lingua | inglese |
Sigla | Downing (2004) |
Titolo | ON THE CREATION AND USE OF ENGLISH COMPOUND NOUNS |
Sinonimi | non-predicative adjective (inglese) |
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Citazioni | Levi [...] proposes that compound nouns are derived from underlying relative clause or complement structures by the two processes of deletion and nominalization. And she mantains that the first members of such nouns may be converted into morphological adjectives ("non-predicating adjectives") when such form exist in the English lexicon. |