On the Nature of Noun Incorporation

Mithun, Marianne

doi:10.2307/415599

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“…Incorporation often has consequences for valency and transitivity, since in many languages, incorporation strips a nominal of its argument status ( Mithun, 1984( Mithun, , 1986Mithun and Corbett, 1999). However, additional aspects of incorporation emerge in the context of language contact.…”

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Valency and Transitivity in Contact: An Overview

Grossman

Witzlack-Makarevich

2019

J. Lang. Contact

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Valency and Transitivity in Contact: An Overview

Grossman

Witzlack-Makarevich

2019

J. Lang. Contact

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“…This analysis treats the subject marker in Chichewa, Swahili and in some Bantu languages as 'a pronominal subject argument within the verbal morphology [which] remains functionally ambiguous retaining the status of an agreement marker too' (Mchombo 2004: 27;see also Givon 1976see also Givon , 1984see also Givon , 1990Mchombo and Bresnan 1987). There is a substantial amount of literature of the morphosyntax of nominal incorporation and argument (see Stump 1984;Baker 1988, 1990, 1999and Mithum 1986, 1992. Alongside these analyses, Roberts (1991) examines the morphosyntax of excoporation in languages.…”

Section: Grammaticalisation Of Subject Pronounsmentioning

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Grammaticalisation of Subject Pronouns and the Emergence of Preverbal Particles: Effects on Kenyang Morphosyntax

Tabe¹

2014

IJLC

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Kenyang preverbal particles host phi-features of a preceding DP and an aspectual feature which is denoted by tone. Relevant literature on Kenyang (Niger-Congo group) treats them ambiguously as independent pronouns and subject markers; as subject markers only. Subjecting these particles to the independent pronominal tests shows that they are not independent pronouns but rather subject markers typical of many Bantu languages. An attempt to establish a grammatical pathway for the preverbal particles reveals that they are expressions somewhere on a continuum between independent pronouns and agreement markers. The preverbal particles are the reduced forms of the independent pronouns through the process of grammaticalisation. The remnant of this process as evident from the first person singular independent pronoun indicates that the grammaticalisation cline is not saturated yet but rather in a continuum. The consequence of this on Kenyang morphosyntax is that it alternates between a pro-drop and a non-pro-drop language. The minimalist program can accommodate non-pro-drop languages but not the otherwise without a review of some of its canons. This paper sets out to examine a hypothesis that traces the possible evolution of Kenyang preverbal particles within the grammaticalisation framework and its effects on Kenyang morphosyntax within the minimalist program.

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“…This is what Baker (1988Baker ( , 1996 argues (see section 4.3.1). Alternatively, one could argue that the apparent referentiality of incorporated nouns is not genuine; for relevant discussion see Mithun (1984Mithun ( , 1986, Sadock (1986), and Gerdts (1998).…”

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confidence: 99%