caa a22 4500 388043229 CHVBK 20180307125028.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199805 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S1360674300000691 doi S1360674300000691 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S1360674300000691 Bauer Laurie School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies Victoria University of Wellington PO Box 600 Wellington New Zealand laurie.bauer@vuw.ac.nz When is a sequence of two nouns a compound in English? [Elektronische Daten] [Laurie Bauer] Constructions of noun + noun have been treated in two distinct ways in the literature: either they have been treated as compounds, or they have been treated as noun phrases with modifiers which happen to be nouns. Sometimes it is assumed that there are two distinct classes, which can be neatly distinguished. In this paper it is argued that the criteria which are usually assumed to distinguish between these two construction types do not draw a clear and consistent distinction between a syntactic and a morphological construction. Many of the criteria instead are indirect measures of listedness, which, it is argued, is not sufficient to show morphological status. Accordingly, it is claimed that the criteria to which reference is generally made do not allow us to distinguish between a class of noun + noun compounds and a class of noun + noun syntactic constructions. Rather the two should be treated as variants of a single construction (possibly morphological, possibly syntactic), at least until such time as a suitable coherent distinction can be properly motivated. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 English Language and Linguistics Cambridge University Press 2/1(1998-05), 65-86 1360-6743 2:1<65 1998 2 ELL https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674300000691 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674300000691 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Bauer Laurie School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies Victoria University of Wellington PO Box 600 Wellington New Zealand laurie.bauer@vuw.ac.nz NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- English Language and Linguistics Cambridge University Press 2/1(1998-05), 65-86 1360-6743 2:1<65 1998 2 ELL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge