ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses noun compounds, word-like units which are made up of two nouns or an adjective and a noun. There are two types of noun compound: bare noun compounds and adjective-noun compounds. The use of bare noun compounds for street names is a fairly recent development, and forms such as Akgul Sokak are used interchangeably with the corresponding -(s)I compound form. These compounds are made up of an adjective and a noun. As in bare-noun compounds, there is no suffixation to mark the relation between the two components. The function of the 3rd person possessive suffix in -(s)I compounds is not to signify possession of one thing by another. It simply serves as a grammatical indicator of the compounding of the noun to which it is affixed with the immediately preceding noun. Compounds can often be embedded within other compounds.
