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recursive compound word (plural recursive compound words)

1. (linguistics) Compound word composed of at least one other compound word.

   The recursive compound word "chocolate teapot" is composed of "chocolate" and "teapot" which itself is also a compound word composed of "tea" and "pot".

   • 2008 October, Makiko Mukai, “Recursive compounds”, in Word Structure‎, volume 1, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 178-198:

     A structure of recursive compound words has not been discussed by many researchers in the generative linguistics. In compounding, recursion can be defined that a compound noun freely becomes the base of another compound noun (Namiki 1988).

上位語

• compound word

派生語

• recursive compound

関連する語

• recursive acronym