Category talk:English parasynthetic adjectives

@Erutuon: I'm not sure all the items are typologically identical, but this should be a good starting point.

Sorting

• It would be good to distinguish between real three-part compounds, and two-part ones (butterfingered from butterfingers, etc.)

Rehaul

• CAT:English compound adjectives (create also CAT:English compound nouns)
  • CAT:English compound adjectives suffixed with -ed?
    • adjective/noun + noun + the possessive -ed: this category
    • adverb + past participle: well-behaved, well-mannered (the type of well-spoken)... but wait, what about well-intentioned, ill-intentioned?
    • but some cases are ambiguous: ill-fated? medium-sized? well-heeled? well-mannered? deep-rooted? bell-shaped?

Idea

Make a list of names using this sort of adjectives:

• white-tailed eagle (many with white-tailed)
• yellow-necked mouse
• broad-winged hawk
• red-backed shrike
• needle-clawed bushbaby
• sharp-shinned hawk
• pitted-shelled turtle
• ...

@Chuck Entz: Hello. Would that be useful? --Per utramque cavernam (talk) 19:11, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

I'm more of a producer than an end-user of organism-name categories, so I could be wrong, but I can't imagine why anyone would want to look for all the organism names that are structured this way. I would think most people would be looking for either the organism or the name- but not the morphological structure (a given morpheme, perhaps, but not the structure). For example, I don't see why Philippine eagle should be categorized any differently from monkey-eating eagle. Chuck Entz (talk) 05:11, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

@Chuck Entz: I guess you're right. I think it's not so much the names themselves as the compound adjectives in them that interest me; I really have a weird fascination for them. Collecting all these names would expand the category by at least a factor of two. --Per utramque cavernam 19:30, 27 April 2018 (UTC)