Noun Incorporation: Essentials and Extensions

Massam, Diane

doi:10.1111/j.1749-818x.2009.00140.x

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“…Some of the early theoretical debates focused on whether or not incorporation was a morphological or a syntactic process, but more recent discussions have explored the semantic effects (see Massam 2009 for an overview). Different definitions of noun incorporation appear in the literature, some very narrow but others more inclusive, as I discuss below.…”

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When bare nouns scope wide. The case of Malagasy

Paul

2015

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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Data from a wide range of languages appear to show that bare nouns take obligatory narrow scope. Research on bare nouns has therefore closely tied certain interpretative effects (low scope, number neutrality) to the special overt morphosyntax of bareness (Carlson 1977, inter alia). Thus there appears to be a tight connection between the syntax and the semantics of noun phrases. In this context, the goal of this article is two-fold. The first goal is to present data from Official Malagasy that call into question this correlation: bare nouns in the language can take variable scope. Thus the overt form of a nominal is not a reliable signal of its interpretation. Second, it is argued that bare nouns in Official Malagasy are in fact headed by a null determiner. Supporting data come from a related dialect, Antakarana, where bare nouns take obligatory narrow scope and there is no evidence for a null determiner.

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When bare nouns scope wide. The case of Malagasy

Paul

2015

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“…17 Levin (in press) discusses subject incorporation in the object voice construction in Balinese, where a postverbal subject appears as a strictly adjacent indefinite argument, as seen in (27a). (27) Subjects are incorporated in other languages (see references in Massam 2009ain Massam , 1089, but they are usually non-agentive and/or inanimate. It is also interesting that proper names can incorporate, as in (27b).…”

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“…Overall, syntactic approaches over the past two decades have been successful in explaining a large set of phenomena within a single module. Three general overviews of noun incorporation are Gerdts (1998), Massam (2009a), and. We will examine core issues among the syntactic proposals for noun incorporation and include a brief discussion of some relevant contributions from semantic analyses of noun incorporation.…”

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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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“…NI has been identified as a productive phenomenon in numerous languages for well over a century now (Cuoq , Kroeber , Sapir ). For the present purposes, NI can be roughly defined as a construction in which a nominal expression appears inside the verbal complex (Gerdts , Massam ) . Consider the following Onondaga example (Woodbury ) ,…”

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Two Kinds of Structural Noun Incorporation

Barrie

2015

Studia Linguistica

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This paper proposes a novel solution to the problem of noun incorporation constructions in which both an incorporated noun and a nominal double, hyponymous object, or stranded modifier are present. Such doubling constructions have been difficult to reconcile with a syntactic approach to noun incorporation. I propose that doubling constructions arise from an underlying structure in which the incorporated nominal and the double are merged as a constituent. In doing so, I argue against the parameterized φ-deletion analysis proposed in Baker et al. (2005), pointing out some shortcomings of their analysis. This proposal also ties together doubling and stranding into a unified phenomenon, a result I show is supported by cross-linguistic evidence. I also tie doubling/stranding in with the availability of NI with unaccusatives and show how this also falls out from the current proposal. Thus, this proposal makes a strong testable prediction on the distribution of the properties of NI found in natural language.

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Noun Incorporation: Essentials and Extensions

Cited by 99 publications

References 82 publications

When bare nouns scope wide. The case of Malagasy

When bare nouns scope wide. The case of Malagasy

Noun Incorporation

Two Kinds of Structural Noun Incorporation

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