Steelworks, cowbell.

Beach ball, snow blower.

Bread bin, sheep dip.

Blacksmith, hothouse.

Highlight, white-wash.

Dry-clean, hard-cover.

Green-light, metallic-green.

a verb compound consisting of a verb and an adverb.

a noun compound consisting of a verb and a noun.

an adverb compound consisting of a verb and an adverb.

a noun compound consisting of a verb and an adverb.

an exocentric syntactic compound.

not a compound.

an endocentric syntactic compound.

a non-syntactic compound.

an adjective (e.g., ‘sea-sick’).

a verb (e.g., ‘baby-sit’).

a noun (e.g., ‘dare-devil’).

an adverb (e.g., ‘through-out’).

not a compound.

a verb compound.

a neo-classical compound.

an exocentric compound.

the meaning is always non-idiomatic.

the meaning is always derived from the meaning of the constituents in the literal sense.

the meaning is equivalent to the meaning of the constituents when the same constituents appear in phrases.

compounds have specialized meanings – the meaning of at least one of the constituents is usually obscured.

the word order of the two constituents results in an unacceptable compound.

the typical compound has the primary stress on the first element.

the constituents of a compound cannot be modified independently.

‘completely’ can modify the first element of the compound, but not the second one.

reflects sentence-level syntax, i.e., the object (a noun) follows the verb.

is a combination of an adjective and a noun, which reflects the typical English phrase structure.

is a combination of a verb and a noun, which reflects the typical English phrase structure.

does not reflect the typical positions of various constituents in an English sentence.

a stem consisting of more than one root.

any lexeme consisting of two (or more) morphemes.

a free root morpheme.

a root consisting of more than one stem.