What Is Compounding?

English doesn't do this very often. Typically what we have is noun noun compounds and when a gerund ends up as the second element once in a blue moon we will pull out a new verb phrase that looks like noun incorporation like babysit. But it's very rare for English to do this but certainly other European languages are much happier to do noun verb compounding. And that's it I mean do we want to start in on the different types? Well yeah we have a basic definition. I basically need to get into the types. Okay so type 1 is the simplest kind simple lexical incorporation. It's used to define something that has a special new meaning for some sort of recurring activity