Noun incorporation and phrasal movement

Barrie, Michael; Mathieu, Eric

doi:10.1007/s11049-015-9296-6

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“…Building on similar argumentation by Barrie & Mathieu's (2016) for Onondaga and Ojibwe, I provide below evidence that the incorporation of lexical material in West Circassian cannot be derived via head movement, as has been proposed for other cases of noun incorporation by (Baker 1988).…”

Section: Phase To Word Mappingsupporting

confidence: 58%

West Circassian polysynthesis at the morphology-syntax interface

Ershova

2018

Proc Ling Soc Amer

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This paper presents an analysis of word formation in West Circassian, a polysynthetic language. I argue that while verbs and nouns superficially share a similar morphological profile, they are in fact constructed through two distinct word formation strategies: while verbal morphology is concatenated via syntactic head movement, the noun phrase is pronounced as a single word due to rules of syntax-to-prosody mapping. Such a division of labor provides an account for why only nouns, and not verbs, exhibit productive noun incorporation in the language: West Circassian noun incorporation is prosodic, rather than syntactic. The evidence for this two-fold approach to word formation comes from morpheme ordering in nominalizations.

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Section: Phase To Word Mappingsupporting

confidence: 58%

West Circassian polysynthesis at the morphology-syntax interface

Ershova

2018

Proc Ling Soc Amer

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“…Such facts suggest that noun incorporation does not involve head movement, but phrasal movement of a larger constituent. See Barrie and Mathieu (2016) for similar patterns in a range of noun incorporation languages. the transitive suffix.…”

Section: (I)mentioning

confidence: 91%

Object licensing in Fijian and the role of adjacency

Urk

2019

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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Fijian displays a crosslinguistically unusual system of differential object marking (DOM) (Alderete 1998; Aranovich 2013). In typical DOM effects, objects higher in animacy and/or definiteness receive additional morphological marking and appear in higher syntactic positions. In Fijian, however, pronoun and proper name objects, although higher on standard DOM hierarchies, must remain verb-adjacent and surface without an article. This paper argues that this pattern arises because pronoun and proper name objects undergo morphological merger with the verb at PF, which allows a nominal to escape the Case Filter (Levin 2015; Branan 2017). I present evidence that, in contrast, common noun objects in Fijian are structurally reduced, and so do not need Case licensing. As a result, Fijian provides support for an approach to DOM in which objects higher in definiteness/animacy have an additional Case licensing need (e.g. Massam 2001; Danon 2006; Ormazabal and Romero 2013; Kalin 2018), and against theories that rely exclusively on differences in syntactic position or overt marking.

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“…Thus, for Piggott and Travis, a word-internal complex head may result solely from either (a) heads merging successively through head movement or (b) external merge of two heads in an independent workspace, followed by merge of that new object with another head in the main workspace. A number of linguists (Massam 2001;Compton and Pittman 2010;Barrie and Mathieu 2012;Mathieu 2013;Barrie and Mathieu 2016;Mathieu, Fry, and Barrie in press) do not believe that such restrictions hold in noun incorporation, and therefore do not accept that noun incorporation involves head movement. Mathieu (2013), for example, argues that ikwe-zhenz-ish in (12) is merged as a phrase, and gives further examples, such as (13), where prenominal modifiers are found word-internally.…”

Section: Heads Versus Phrasesmentioning

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Noun Incorporation

Johns

2017

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Second Edition

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This chapter provides an overview of noun incorporation in broad terms, examining nominals found either within or strictly adjacent to predicates from numerous languages. Syntactic issues have shifted from an earlier debate about whether noun incorporation was an operation in the lexicon or syntax to more recent discussion about whether noun incorporation is a narrow syntax or PF operation. Other issues concern whether phrases or just heads can incorporate. If phrases incorporate, are they phrasal at the point of incorporation? AGREE analyses examine the trigger for incorporation. A number of analyses posit that there is no movement of the nominal at all (pseudo noun incorporation), and utilize an adjacency relation between the verb and incorporated nominal. It remains clear that languages show similar cross‐linguistic properties in noun incorporation, even to the extent that language‐internal differences are often similar, often relating to verb class. The expansion of the set of empirical data from semantic analyses and other work continues to lead toward refinements.

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Noun incorporation and phrasal movement

Cited by 62 publications

References 72 publications

West Circassian polysynthesis at the morphology-syntax interface

West Circassian polysynthesis at the morphology-syntax interface

Object licensing in Fijian and the role of adjacency

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