Abstract

This paper deals with a class of noun compounds which have characteristic reading as though they were coordinate conjoined nouns. The class is termed “dvandva” by Hatcher (1951), and “coordinative” by Marchand (1960) and Botha (1974). Examples are compounds such as fighter-bomber, washer-drier, priest-king, secretary-treasurer. Note that these compounds do not have the characteristic fore-stress of attributive compounds.

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