The structure of faithful loans structure is the same as that of the spoken language counterparts. That is to say, the compound mirrors the structure in the spoken language construction. For instance, the LSC compounds in (a) and (b) follow in a one-to-one fashion the compound structure in Catalan.
a) system^nervous (‘nervous system’)
(extracted from DOMAD, 2002b)
b) fertilisation^external (‘external fertilisation’)
(extracted from DOMAD, 2002b)