Another example of weak noun incorporation in English?

[aliothsan]

You can say "fear-mongering" and "hate-mongering" (with or without hyphen), but it sounds weird to say "mongering fear":

One of the favories squeals of the climate change denialists is that proponents of action to slow the current global warming are "alarmists", exagerating threats and mongering fear to push past rational debate.
--A Few Things

Comments

[jbsegal]

I'm totally love-having “Googlinguistics”. You've seen http://www.eccentricity.org/2008/03/the_roots_of_all_nerdiness.html
right?

[aliothsan]

...No! Wow, that's actually a really good idea. I wonder how the board was designed so its layout reflected realistic adjacencies in soundchange-space?

[aliothsan]

I have no idea whether it was done so, but I was hoping it had.

[aliothsan]

...*sigh*

[anonymous]

I have to agree with Brien here; nevertheless, constructions like _fear-monger_ (as in _he fear-mongers_) are perfectly understandable in English, for the most part; they just sound bizarre. It'd be easy to imagine a dialect of English where noun-verb compounding held sway; and we'd have little trouble understanding what was being said.

--jsburke