Abstract This paper highlights three issues in the study of verb–noun compounding and shows how data from Akan (Niger-Congo, Kwa, Ghana) help answer the relevant questions for the language. The issues, which mainly concern the exocentric subtype, are: one, the syntactic category of the left-hand constituent and that of the whole compound; two, whether the formation of verb–noun compounds is a matter of syntax or morphology; and three, how to distinguish between verb–noun compounds and verb phrases, given their structural similarity. Although these issues have come up somehow in the literature on Akan verb–noun compounds, they have not been deliberately targeted for discussion. This paper fills the gap. It is shown that the left-hand constituent is definitely a verb. This raises the question of how to account for the syntactic category of the exocentric subclass of the compound, given that the compound is not a hyponym of the right-hand nominal constituent whose syntactic category may be assumed to percola...

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动词-名词复合词研究中的分析问题：Akan如何适合？

摘要本文重点介绍了动词-名词复合研究中的三个问题，并展示了来自阿肯语（尼日尔-刚果，夸，加纳）的数据如何帮助回答该语言的相关问题。这些问题主要涉及外心亚型，其一是：左手成分的句法范畴和整个复合词的句法范畴。第二，动词-名词复合词的形成是语法还是形态上的问题；第三，在结构上相似的情况下，如何区分动词-名词复合词和动词短语。尽管这些问题已经在有关阿肯语动词-名词复合词的文献中以某种方式出现，但并未故意将其作为讨论的对象。本文填补了空白。结果表明，左手成分肯定是动词。