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How do we put words together to build more complex noun phrases? What do the structures of sentences and noun phrases have in common? In this week's episode, we talk about compound nouns: what they look and sound like, how big we can make them, and how they can let us delve into some deeper questions about syntax.

This is Topic #76!

This week's tag language: Polish!

Related episodes:
Goldilocks and the Three Nouns: Theta Roles - youtu.be/thFkoo1YmW0
Some Assembly Required: Derivational and Inflectional Morphology - youtu.be/BTZCozhneKA

Last episode:
Topic of Focus: Information Structure - youtu.be/gZ6o8yFvJYI

Other of our morphosyntax videos:
Up, Up, and Away: the Verb Phrase-Internal Subject Hypothesis - youtu.be/EJoUyPIdu18
Desert Island Words: Syntactic Islands - youtu.be/01uH4XfJx3g
Organizing Meanings: Morphological Typology - youtu.be/Ts2DS0ZsTyo

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Sources:
Most of the information for this episode came from Mark Baker and Jonathan Bobaljik's textbook on morphology.

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