Conceptual Combination and Modification

概念组合是将来自两个（或更多）概念的信息组合以生成新概念的过程（例如，将狗和房子组合以生成狗屋）。概念组合的有趣之处在于：1)它提供了关于单个概念理论的充分性的信息，也就是说，概念理论需要为解释概念组合提供基础；2)它提供了关于语言系统和概念系统之间关系的信息，因为许多概念组合发生在名词短语的产生和解释的背景下；3)它为复合词的创造提供了基础，这是许多语言中常见的过程。

Conceptual combination is the process of combining information from two (or more) concepts to generate a new concept (e.g., combining dog and house to generate doghouse). Conceptual combination is interesting in that 1) it provides information about the adequacy of theories of individual concepts, in the sense that theories of concepts need to provide the underpinnings to account for conceptual combination, 2) it provides information about the relation between the language system and the conceptual system, because much conceptual combination occurs in the context of producing and interpreting noun phrases, and 3) it provides the basis for the creation of compound words, a common process in many languages.