[Corpora-List] looking for a corpus of nominal compounds

[Ute Römer]

Dear Denis, 

 

You could use Mark Davies' very useful VIEW interface of the BNC to get that
kind of examples (http://view.byu.edu/) and search for "plural noun followed
by singular noun" by typing in "[nn2]  [nn1]". This query retrieves a list
of examples including "companies act", "services council", "rights issue"...
You can then click on each result to get a BNC concordance of the respective
item. 

 

Have a good weekend!

Best wishes... Ute

 

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From: owner-corpora at lists.uib.no [mailto:owner-corpora at lists.uib.no] On
Behalf Of Denis Jamet
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 12:01 PM
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Subject: [Corpora-List] looking for a corpus of nominal compounds

 

Dear linguists,

 

I am currently looking for a corpus of nominal compounds (N-N) in which the
first noun (the internal noun) is pluralized, such as jobs growth, visual
effects supervisor, the new government’s nationalities policy, etc.

 

Any reference will be greatly appreciated.

 

Thank you.

 

Best regards,

 

Denis Jamet


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