This paper aims, first, to analyze the internal structure of English compounds and their meanings and, secondly, classify them in terms of their types and, thirdly, catch their generality in terms of word-formation and, finally, check up their product...
This paper aims, first, to analyze the internal structure of English compounds and their meanings and, secondly, classify them in terms of their types and, thirdly, catch their generality in terms of word-formation and, finally, check up their productivity and word-formation rules.
In the result of this study, we expect second languages learners to learn more accurately than ever before and produce, to some extent, such well-formed compounds as English native speakers can produce as they will.
As for second language learners, not native speakers, it is considerably difficult to distinguish between English compounds and syntactic phrases because they lacks native speakers' intuition.
Here in this paper, we propose 'know-how' to distinguish English compounds from English syntactic phrases by introducing Chomsky-Halle(1968: 16-22)'s Lexical Stress Rule, Nuclear Stress Rule, and Compound Rule, Stageberg(1965: 108-110)'s Principle of Divisibility, Wiliams(1981: 248)'s Right-hand Head Rule, Selkirk(1982: 21)'s Feature Percolation, Marchand(1969) and Bauer(1983)' classifications of compounds, and other relational theories.