Answer by Colin Fine for Plural nouns in nominal compounds
There is a cross-linguistic principle that words incorporated into compounds tend to lose any inflections (I remember an article in Language in the 80's - probably, from the index, one of the articles...
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As a general rule of thumb, you want to have just one plural word in such a phrase. The other nouns in the phrase act as modifiers to the pluralized noun and are not, therefore, pluralized. So...
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The expression "Universities' student lists" would correctly mean the student lists of a number of universities, but you would want the apostrophe in there.I think it is easier to read this with...
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I wonder whether there are rules or guidelines regarding plural nouns in nominal compounds. For example a compound university students list. If there are many lists and many universities is it...
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