verbal adjective gerundive verbal agnosia agnosia verbal apraxia apraxia verbum substentium

In the word formation of Roeper and Siegel (1978), terms coined to denote two types of composition. Verbal compounds show, as their second element, a deverbal derivate; their first elements are understood as an argument of the base verb (oven-cleaner, strange-

element of root compounds, on the other hand, is not grammatically given, but is basically open (apron string). ( also determinative compound, inheritance)

References

Roeper, T. and M.Siegel, 1978. A lexical transformation for verbal compounds. LingI 9. 199-259. Selkirk, E. 1982. The syntax of words. Cambridge.