Jan 28 - Compounds

Question 1

Endocentric compounds

Answer 1

The meaning of the compound relates to one of the heads

Question 2

Exocentric compounds

Answer 2

Meaning of the compound is not related to the head

Question 3

Bahuvrihi compound

Answer 3

An exocentric compound that refers to a person that has the thing in the head

Question 4

Coordinative compound

Answer 4

A compound in which the two semantic heads have equal footing

Question 5

Appositional compound

Answer 5

a compound in which two semantic heads have the same referent to the compound (maidservent, bittersweet)

Question 6

Coordinative exocentric

Answer 6

exocentric compounds that are also coordinative

Question 7

Synthetic compounds

Answer 7

the head element contains a verbal base and the non-head is an agent of the verb (church-goer, bookkeeper)

Question 8

Affix compounds

Answer 8

simultaneous derivation and compounding (blue-eyed)

Question 9

neo-classical

Answer 9

one or more of the forms are borrowed from Greek or Latin (biology)

Question 10

Syntactic/formal head

Answer 10

the category-determining element in the compound

Question 11

semantic head

Answer 11

the meaning-determining element in a compound