![]() However, three different morphosyntactic strategies are employed: compounding, prepositional phrase and relational adjective. ![]() In each case, the unstated semantic relation is one of COMPOSITION: a railway is conceptualized as a road that is composed, or made, of iron. All of these combine a word denoting ‘iron’ and a word denoting ‘road’ or ‘way’ to denote the meaning ‘railway’. Examples of binominals include Mandarin Chinese 铁路 (tiělù), French chemin de fer and Russian железная дорога (želez.naja doroga). Informally, a binominal lexeme is a noun-noun compound or functional equivalent more precisely, it is a lexical item that consists primarily of two thing-morphs between which there exists an unstated semantic relation. This dissertation establishes ‘binominal lexeme’ as a comparative concept and discusses its cross-linguistic typology and semantics. ![]()
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