Noncompositional

Isn’t English great? I can take an verb that denotes an event involving an agent and a patient, and make a de-verbal adjectival compound by sticking the agent onto the beginning of the verb and an -ed on the end (if this is a “state resulting from an event” type of word). The new creation can then modify (or be predicated of) the patient. Thus, war-devastated nations, time-honored traditions, and kid-tested-mother-approved morning cereals. These construction-licenced adjectives are certainly linguist-appreciated. I’m sure they’ve been scholar-mentioned in content-publishing journals or student-used textbooks. At the very least, they’ve now been blogger-considered. And of course, there are other possibilities for the glommed-on parts. There are regularly-scheduled programs, and often-missed must-see TV (though if you aren’t aware of the scheduling, it’s probably must-seen TV more often than not). Though when all it is is more pundit-spun war-tearing and time-honoring, maybe missing it is understandable.

Anyway, I’d better watch out, before I incorporation-infest this entry. Though, I must admit, I do verb-like object-incorporating ones.