Creative noun-noun compounds

• Autores: Réka Benczes
• Localización: Review of cognitive linguistics, ISSN 1877-9751, Nº. 3, 2005, págs. 250-268
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The paper makes the following novel claims: (1) the semantics of noun�noun compounds which is activated by metaphor and/or metonymy (often termed as �exocentric� compounds in linguistics and generally regarded as semantically opaque) can be accounted for within a cognitive linguistic framework, and the term �creative compound� is proposed for such linguistic phenomena; (2) there are regular patterns of creative compounds, depending on which constituent is affected by conceptual metaphor and/or metonymy. The second part of the paper presents one type of creative compounds: noun�noun combinations whose meaning is influenced by a metaphor-based semantic relationship between the two constituents. Such compounds seem to be quite frequent in English and come in all sorts of shapes and sizes: ranging from the �simpler� cases of image metaphors to the more elaborate single scope blends. The paper will give examples of the various types and will provide detailed analyses of each, within a cognitive linguistic framework.