Language Log: Sweat dance plugs noun pile
Katia Dmitrieva, "Madonna addicted to sweat dance plugs Toronto condos: Mortgages", Bloomberg News 1/10/2014 — Reader CD, a hardened journalistic veteran, calls this "a rare American noun pile...
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Six Chix for 1/10/2014: The complaint might be about failure to pick up on body language or other nonverbal communication channels. But even in a purely textual medium like email or IM or SMS, there's...
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It's common to nominalize already-lexicalized combinations of a verb and an intransitive preposition, like push-up, push-over, hand-out, walk-on, walk-out, and so on. It's less common to see...
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