English Linguistics 34: 1 (2017) 69–80 © 2017 by the English Linguistic Society of Japan * I am grateful to Tomokazu Takehisa and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions. Needless to say, all remaining errors and shortcomings are solely my responsibility. －69－ [Review] Go to Ku to Nazuke-kinoo: Niti-eigo no “Keiyoosi + Meisi”-kei o Tyuusin ni (Words, Phrases and the Naming Function: With a Focus on “Adjective + Noun” Forms in Japanese and English) By Reiko Shimamura, Kaitakusha, Tokyo, 2014, x+197pp. Chigusa MoRita Toita Women’s College* Keywords: adjectives, classifying modifers, compounds, syntactic phrases, word structure 1. Introduction What differentiates compounds and syntactic phrases? One of the dis- tinctions is, as Bauer (2003: 135) notes, that the former “provide names for entities, properties or actions” whereas the latter “provide a descrip- tion.” Shimamura demonstrates in Go to Ku to Nazuke-kinoo (Words, Phrases and the Naming Function) that a complex object, whether it is formed morphologically or syntactically, is not a phrase but has a word- level structure when it assumes the naming function. The great importance of the book under review is that Shimamura generalizes the constructions with the naming function through investigating various kinds of “classifying modifer + noun” forms. This review is organized as follows. Section 2 provides an overview of the book. Section 3 shows that the structures of the “classifying modifer + noun” forms are captured within the framework of Distributed Morphology. Finally, Section 4 presents a brief summary. 2. Overview In this book, Shimamura deals with six types of “classifying modifer +