Loan-like compounds with a fingerspelled component resemble the structure of their Dutch counterpart compounds. Consider the compound s^market ‘supermarket’ in Figure a. Although the manual letter s is not the lexical equivalent of the Dutch component ‘super’ in super^markt, it represents this Dutch word. Additionally, the order of the two elements is the same in NGT as in Dutch. The resulting compounds is thus considered a loan compound. Occasionally, a compound may consist of fingerspelled elements only. An example is the sign b^l ‘blue’, consisting of the sequential combination of the two manual letters b and l (Figure b.). Note that this is a coordinate compound, since none of the elements is a head or a modifier.
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a. s^market ‘supermarket’
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b. b^l ‘blue’
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