Shit-cool and Giant-interesting Words: A study of noun+adjective compounds in Norwegian
Sara Marie Niday · NORA - Norwegian Open Research Archives · 2017
This thesis explores the topic of noun+adjective (N+A) compounds in Norwegian, which is a category of compounds that has not been studied before.656 compounds are analyzed.The data include 420 different first elements (FE) and 111 different second elements (SE).11 semantic groups are described, some with subgroups.The semantic groups are defined by the semantic relation between their elements.It is shown that analyzing N+A compounds by the adjective class of the second element leads to a very different result, which does not take semantic relations into account.It is also shown that the FE slot is much more open than the SE slot, and that there are certain limitations on what kinds of adjectives can occur in an N+A compound.