Abstract This study aims to analyze the productivity of the NN pattern and reveal the formation mechanism of French compound nouns. The NN pattern could embed complex structure on N1 or N2 and the constitutive elements are linked in a hierarchical relation. The analysis is conducted from four levels: structure hierarchy, compounding method combination, semantic relation and semantic class combination. A pattern should be defined by four parameters and their productivities for forming compound nouns vary with vocabulary. The formation process is analyzed based on the corpora, which are elaborated by annotating both the formal and semantic information. This study presents in detail the formation mechanism of NN compound nouns and it allows well predicting the production of compound nouns. The analysis method could be applied to other patterns and vocabularies. The annotated resource and analysis results contribute to the research in language acquisition, lexicography and natural language processing.

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法语中NN模式和复合名词形成的生产力

摘要 本研究旨在分析NN模式的生产力，揭示法语复合名词的形成机制。NN 模式可以在 N1 或 N2 上嵌入复杂的结构，并且构成元素以层次关系链接。从结构层次、复合方法组合、语义关系和语义类组合四个层次进行分析。模式应由四个参数定义，它们形成复合名词的效率因词汇而异。基于语料库分析形成过程，通过对形式和语义信息进行注释来阐述。本研究详细介绍了NN复合名词的形成机制，可以很好地预测复合名词的产生。该分析方法可以应用于其他模式和词汇。标注的资源和分析结果有助于语言习得、词典编纂和自然语言处理的研究。