Principles of classification of English consonants and vowels Principles of classification of English consonants

afternoon, anyway, somebody, schoolboy, railway, mankind, post-card, grown-up

In English bound forms like Anglo-Saxon, Indo-European or politico-economical occur very rarely and seem to be avoided.

-- The regular pattern for the English language is a two-stem compound.

! An exception to this rule is observed when the combining element is represented by a form-word stem:

man-of-war, good-for-nothing, mother-in-law

-- One more feature - attributive syntactic function - plays important role in providing a phrase with structural cohesion and thus turning it into compound:

... we've done last-minute changes before... (compound)

Compare: we changed it at the last minute more than once (adverbial free phrase)

Sometimes the author creates these "nonce-compounds" (окказиональные )

Example:

This is the-man-I-saw-yesterday's daughter.