Data points: distant compounds 11/19/10

Headline in the November 18 (S.F. peninsula) Daily Post (p. 11): Vitamin sale rapist guilty Vitamin sale rapist resists interpretation as an ordinary (Type O) N+N compound, in which the semantic relationship between the head N rapist and the modifier N vitamin sale (itself a N+N compound) is drawn from a small set of relationships: … Continue reading Data points: distant compounds 11/19/10