Adjective Compounds (Pembentukan Kata Sifat)

Adjective Compounds (Pembentukan Kata Sifat)

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2. Adjective Compounds

                2.1  Verb and Object  Compounds

MAN – EATING Object  +  -ing participle ~ X eats men Produvctive type. Self is a frequent first element.

breathtaking fact-finding heart-breaking life-giving record-breaking self-defeating self-justifying, etc.

                2.2  Verb and Adverbial  Compounds

OCEAN-GOING Adverbial  +  -ing paticiple ~ X goes across oceans	fist-fighting law-abiding lip-sucking mouth-watering, etc
HEARTFELT Adverbial  +  -ed participle ~ X  feels it in the library The type is particulary productive when the noun has agential meaning and consists of self- : self-employed, self-taught.	airbone custom-built handmade home-brewed home-made suntanned thunder-struck town-bred weather-beaten, etc.
HARD-WORKING Adjective / adverb + -ing participle ~ X works hard	easy-going everlasting far-reaching good-looking high-sounding well-meaning, etc.
QUICK-FROZEN Adjective / adverb + -ed participle ~ X is frozen quickly	far-fatched new-laid true-born well-meant widespread, etc.

Note :

[a] The idiomatic isolation of some compounds of this type is evident in the replacement of lexical items in sentetial analogues, eg : NEW –laid (eggs) ~ X has laid (the eggs) RECENTLY.

[b] The superficially similar adjective compounds well – meant and well-behaved differ in respect of voice : a well-meant remark ~ a remark that is meant well (passive), but a well-behaved person ~a person that behaves well (active).

                2.3  Verbless Compounds

CLASS-CONSCIOUS Noun (denoting respect) + adjective ~ conscious with respect to class Very productive type with certain	duty-free tax-free dustproof fireproof foolproof
Adjectives that are frequently complemented by prep + noun, e.g :free, proof, sick, light, weary.	airsick carsick homesick air-tight waterflight foor-weary war-weary, etc.
GRASS-GREEN Noun  +  adjective      - as adjective as noun      - adjective like noun	ash-blonde bottle-green brick red midnight blue ocean green sea-green, etc.
WEDISH-AMERICAN   (contacts) Adjective1 + adjective2 in a coordinating relationship ~ (contacts between) Swedish and American (people) In many such compounds, the first elements is not a sparate word and has a linking –o-.	bitter-sweet deaf-mute phonetic-syntatic Anglo-American Franco-German socio-economic psycholinguistic, etc.

Note

      In compounds used as premodifiers of the word dictionary, the first adjective indicates the language used as the basis for the dictionary. For example, an English French dictionary translates words from English into French.

     

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