Re: Compound question

Dear Stephen and Rett,
thank you very much for your help. Yes, it is clearer now.
I like the Viking example Rett gave.
Getting more books is difficult for me, because they are time consuming.
Nina.
op 06-09-2005 00:53 schreef Stephen Hodge op
s.hodge@...:

> A tappurisa compound is a noun. Coulson speaks of this type of compound as
> endocentric -- that is, it is an independent self-contained unit. Bahubihi
> compounds are adjectival and hence are exocentric -- that is, they refer to
> some head-word (stated or implicit) outside of the compound and hence are
> not self-contained.