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<p>utrecht</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;No-Phrase Constraint&#039;&#039;&#039; is a constraint proposed by Botha (1983) which says that [[root compound]]s may not contain syntactic phrases. This constraint accounts for the unacceptability of compounds such as *&#039;&#039;black-as-coal bird&#039;&#039; and *&#039;&#039;slightly-used-car salesman&#039;&#039;. However, there are many counterexamples, the first one being the constraint itself. Other counterexamples are &#039;&#039;car-of-the-month election&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;(the) why-does-it-always-happen-to-me complaint&#039;&#039;. Compounds having the structure [XP + N] are fully productive in Dutch: &#039;&#039;oudemannenhuis&#039;&#039; &#039;old men&#039;s home&#039;, &#039;&#039;onderwatergedeelte&#039;&#039; &#039;submerged part&#039; (Lit. &#039;under water part&#039;), and &#039;&#039;God-is-dood-these&#039;&#039; &#039;God-is-dead thesis&#039;.<br /> <br /> === Links ===<br /> <br /> [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=No-Phrase+Constraint&amp;lemmacode=508 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]<br /> <br /> === References ===<br /> <br /> * Botha, R. 1983. &#039;&#039;Morphological mechanisms,&#039;&#039; Pergamon Press, Oxford.<br /> * Hoeksema J. 1985. &#039;&#039;Categorial Morphology,&#039;&#039; PhD. diss. Groningen University.<br /> * Lieber, R. 1988. &#039;&#039;Phrasal compounds in English and the morphology-syntax interface,&#039;&#039; Papers from the parasession on agreement in grammatical theory; CLS 24, 202-222, .<br /> <br /> {{dc}}<br /> [[Category:Morphology]]</div>

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