A Review of the Research on English and Chinese NNCs at Home and Abroad

摘要

The combination of noun and noun(NNC for short)is an important means to construct new words in English and Chinese,which is very common in language use and is highly productive.This thesis mainly reviews the research on NNCs at home and abroad.Scholars at home and abroad have made significant contribution to the study of NNCs.But NNCs are very complicated linguistic phenomena,there are still some limitations unsolved or to be improved.