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LECTURE 4

Asyndetic Noun Clusters and Rendering Their Meaning into Ukrainian
I Syndetic and asyndetic connection.
Present-day English is mainly analytical in structure and the principal means of
its grammatical connection are naturally analytical. They may be syndetic
(prepositional) and asydentic (non-prepositional). These two forms of analytical
connection are very often of equal relevance due to which they are interchangeable;

books for home reading (syndetic connection);
home-reading books (asyndetic connection);
e.g.
books at the university library (syndetic connection);
the university library books. (asyndetic connection)

II Asyndetic noun clusters and their structure.
Asyndetic noun clusters are word-groups, consisting of two or more nouns which
function as intergrated units.

school leavers – випускники
e.g. the Kyiv Dynamo football club – футбольний клуб
Київського Динамо

Asyndetic noun clusters are binary by their nature. They consist of two components:
1. A head component, which is the nucleus of the word-group.
2. An attributive component, which is the adjunct of the word-group.
Both the nucleus or the adjunct may consist of one word or several words.

school reform - шкільна реформа
(adjunct) (nucleus)

House of Commons debate – дебати в Палаті громад
e.g. (adjunct) (nucleus)

US foreign policy – зовнішня політика США
(adjunct) (nucleus)

The noun clusters given above are considered two-componental N+N type asyndetic
noun clusters. Components like “House of Commons” or “US” are to be treated as
single adjuncts, since they function as a single Ncompound or
Nabbreviated. Even the two words “foreign policy” represent a single adjective-noun
unit AN. Consequently, the word-combination “US foreign policy” may be
schematically represented as

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