Compounds: Forms

Silke Kölsch, Anja Mennecke, Christoph Reuter

June 13, 1996

 
• 1 Definitions
• 2 What are compound words?
• 3 How can we identify a compound?
• 4 The Right-hand Head Rule (RHR)
• 5 Phrase-structure Rules
• 6 Orthography of compounds
• 7 Stress patterns in compound nouns
• 8 Plural of compound nouns
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