摘要：This paper reports on the results of a corpus-based study of English N+N compoundsthat are hyponyms of their rightmost elements (Bloomfield 1933: 235), e.g. librarybook, hen house, coffee cup, with the aim of investigating the relation betweenproductivity, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the structural pattern of N+Ncompound formation (with a particular reference to the relationship between theelements of the compound). The discussion of the results addresses the question ofwhether productivity of a noun in forming a paradigm of compounds (constituent wordfamily) could be connected with the productivity of the relation realised in thecompound paradigm containing this noun. This question has its roots in the ongoingdiscussion of the role of analogy in the formation of complex lexical items, and itsinvestigation may shed light on the issue of analogy in both formal and semanticpatterning.
关键词：N+N compounds; productivity; constituent word family; analogy; semantic;relations
