摘要:The choice of the topic of ‘noun + noun’ compounds for my paper has been motivated by the realization that there are relevant aspects to which the FG conception of morphology pays very little attention. One of these is compounding. To my knowledge, with the exception of the account on noun incorporation (Dik 1980, 1997), not much is said on the nature of compounds, i.e. the types of processes involved in the generation and interpretation of compounds and the formal mechanisms to account for them, as well as of the place of compounding in grammar or its interactions with the different components. Unfortunately, the attention paid to compounding processes is even more scarce in the new version of the model (FDG ) (Hengeveld 2004a, 2004b).