Product Description: If you were a compound word, you would be two words in one. You could take a house and a boat and make a HOUSEBOAT. You could take a boat that rows and make it a ROWBOAT. What else could you do if you were a compound word?

Product Description: If you were a compound word, you would be two words in one. You could take a house and a boat and make a HOUSEBOAT. You could take a boat that rows and make it a ROWBOAT. What else could you do if you were a compound word?

Illustrates the humorous situations that occur when compound words are taken literally, such as a berry made of straw for strawberry and a honeymoon appearing as a moon made of honeycombs.

Product Description: Metaphorical and metonymical compounds – novel and lexicalised ones alike – are remarkably abundant in language. Yet how can we be sure that when using an expression such as land fishing in order to speak about metal detecting, the referent will be immediately understood even if the hearer had not been previously familiar with the compound? Accordingly, this book sets out to explore whether the semantics of metaphorical and metonymical noun–noun combinations can be systematically analysed within a theoretical framework, where systematicity pertains to regularities in both the cognitive processes and the products of these processes, that is, the compounds themselves...read more

Using simple text and illustrations, presents compound words and shows how their meaning changes when they are not spelled as one word.

Illustrations and easy-to-read text introduce compound words related to food and eating.

Illustrations and easy-to-read text introduce compound words related to food.

Illustrations and easy-to-read text introduce compound words related to family and home.

Illustrations and easy-to-read text introduce compound words related to travel.

Illustrations and easy-to-read text introduce compound words related to school.

Illustrations and easy-to-read text introduce compound words related to sports and recreation.

Illustrations and easy-to-read text introduce compound words related to nature and being outdoors.

Illustrations and easy-to-read text introduce compound words related to hiking and camping.

Illustrations and easy-to-read text introduce compound words related to the seashore.

Illustrations and easy-to-read text introduce compound words familiar to young readers.

Illustrations and easy-to-read text introduce compound words related to playing.

Illustrations and easy-to-read text introduce various compound words.

Illustrations and easy-to-read text introduce compound words related to snow.

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Product Description: This work presents a model for novel compound interpretation using Cognitive Grammar and schema theory. The model, based on analysis of established compounds and responses to novel compounds, claims that speakers try using real-world schemas attached to both element nouns to construct a relationship between them by matching already established patterns...read more

During a train trip through the countryside to visit Grandma and Grandpa, children discover and learn compound words--words formed from the combination of smaller words.