| Lemma | first sister principle |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Lieber (2004) |
| Titolo | ARGUMENT LINKING AND COMPOUNDS IN ENGLISH |
| Sinonimi | FS principle (inglese) |
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| Citazioni | First Sister (FS) Principle: All verbal compounds are formed by incorporation of a word in first sister position of the verb. That is, if a noun, adjective, or adverb is an acceptable complement to a verb when it occurs in a sentence, the same noun, adjective, or adverb will be acceptable as a first stem when the verb occurrs in a synthetic compound: ‘He made peace’ → ‘peacemaker’, but ‘*He thought peace’ → ‘*peacethinker’. |