On Dec 4, 2008, at 7:53 AM, i wrote:
> ... synthetic compounds do not
> presuppose the existence of a verb V+N ("bicycle-ride", "storm-toss").
>
> but synthetic compounds *look* like they're based on V+N verbs, ...
for "V+N", read "N+V".
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