Краткий курс лекций по лексикологии английского языка для студентов неязыковых вузов. Москалёва Е.В. - 50 стр.

            conversion from word-groups, e.g. to micky-mouse, can-do,
            makeup etc.;
                   b) back formation from compound nouns or word-groups,
            e.g. to bloodtransfuse, to fingerprint etc.;
                   c) analogy, e.g. lie-in (on the analogy with sit-in) and also
            phone-in, brawn-drain (on the analogy with brain-drain) etc.

                  CLASSIFICATIONS OF ENGLISH COMPOUNDS
                  1.    According to the parts of speech compounds are
            subdivided into:
            a) nouns, such as: baby-moon, globe-trotter,
            b) adjectives, such as: free-for-all, power-happy;
            c) verbs, such as: to honey-moon, to baby-sit, to henpeck;
            d) adverbs, such as: downdeep, headfirst;
            e) prepositions, such as: into, within;
            f) numerals, such as: fifty-five.

                 2.    According to the way components are joined together
            compounds are divided into:
                 a) neutral, which are formed by joining together two stems
            without any joining morpheme, e.g. ball-point, to window-shop;
                 b) morphological where components are joined by a linking
            element: vowels “o” or “i” other consonant “s”, e.g. (“astrospace”,
            “handicraft”, “sportsman”);
                 c) syntactical where the components are joined by means of
            form-word stems, e.g. here-and-now, free-for-all, do-or-die .

                    3.   According to their structure compounds are subdivided
            into:
                  a) compound words proper which consist of two stems, e.g.
            to job-hunt, train-sick, go-go, tip-top;
                  b) derivational compounds, where besides the stems we have
            affixes, e.g. ear-minded, hydro-skimmer,
                  c) compound words consisting of three or more stems, e.g.
            cornflower-blue, eggshell-thin, singer-songwriter;
                  d) compound-shortened words, e.g. boatel, tourmobile, VJ-
            day, motocross, intervision. Eurodollar, Camford.


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