论英语名词定语

On Attributive Nouns in English

本文探讨了现代英语中名词定语的使用现状及发展趋势,阐述了名词定语的句法功能和名词中心词之间的语义关系及名词定语与名词转类形容词以及与复合名词的区别。

This article is a descriptive analysis on attributive nouns used in present-day English.It illustrates the syntactic features of attributive nouns and the semantic relationships between attributive nouns and their head nouns.It focuses on the differences between attributive nouns and compound nouns,attributive nouns and some attributive adjectives derived from nouns.