The Evolution of Noun Incorporation

Mithun, Marianne

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“…Baker (1988Baker ( , especially 92-105, 1996 described stranding of a similar kind in noun incorporation and used this as an argument for syntactic movement and incorporation in the syntax. This approach violates the Lexical Integrity Principle, and analyses more in keeping with this Principle are suggested in Mithun (1984Mithun ( , 1986 and Anderson (2005). However, Baker's syntactic approach is not easily compatible with the derivational morphology illustrated in (2), and there are other problems with the approaches of Mithun and Anderson. In this paper I argue that, while words are formed in the morphology, under some circumstances parts of words are accessible to (parts of) the syntax, contrary to the Lexical Integrity Principle.…”

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“…Mithun (1984) presents a large typological study of NI types and argues that verbs with incorporated nouns (INs) are compounds. She particularly notes that in general left-hand constituents of such compounds do not refer, do not introduce discourse referents, and are not marked for definiteness or number (1984: 849).…”

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In other words: external modifiers in Georgian

Harris

2007

Morphology

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This paper addresses the issue of stranded modifiers and null heads through two otherwise unrelated constructions in Georgian. In each construction, a word in the oblique form modifies part of the complex word following it. It is shown that null modifiers in Georgian have a form different from that of the modifiers in the constructions at issue, and the latter cannot have null heads. However, Baker's [Baker, M. C. (1988). Incorporation: A theory of grammatical function changing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.] alternative approach is not easily compatible with the derivational morphology of these examples. I propose an analysis of external modifiers in terms of Beard [Beard, R. (1991). Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 9,, which addresses other bracketing paradoxes by permitting ''the semantic features of an attribute [to] subjoin with one and only one semantic feature of its head' ' (1991: 208). In this way I suggest a unified analysis of noun incorporation and derived structures, drawing on a mechanism that must be included in the grammar for non-derived words as well.

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In other words: external modifiers in Georgian

Harris

2007

Morphology

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“…Muchos han sido los trabajos centrados en la INCORPORACIÓN NOMI-NAL en general, donde Mithun (1984), Baker (1988) y Hale & Keyser (1993) son algunos ejemplos representativos. Mientras que un tratamiento exhaustivo de este fenómeno está fuera del alcance del presente estudio, sí se tratará en tanto en cuanto es un ejemplo de mecanismo no completamente productivo que modifica la valencia verbal reduciendo el número de argumentos asociados a la base mayormente en el plano sintáctico, ya que la reducción de valencia por incorporación nominal no resulta en una modificación de la denotación verbal, como se verá en este apartado.…”

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Sufijos de transitividad en la lengua yaqui: un estudio de interfaz entre la morfología y la sintaxis

Blanco

2017

CLECM

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En este artículo se hace una aproximación tipológico-descritptiva al fenómeno del cambio de valencia sintáctica como ejemplo de la relación entre morfología y sintaxis observada en lenguas aglutinantes como el yaqui (yutoazteca). En particular se trata de dos casos en que los cambios de valencia aprecen simultáneamente manifestados en la sintaxis (i.e., mediante la alteración del número de argumentos del verbo ) en la morfología (i.e., mediante alteraciones en la sufijación verbal). Se estudia alguna operación entre los argumentos de valencia, como la alternativa causativa, así como operaciones de redución de valencia, como el caso de la incorporación, y se concluye que la morfología verbal es un buen diagnóstico para identificar la valencia de los verbos yaqui.

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“…Though the syntactic relevance of the incorporated nominal has lately been called into question for other languages (Mithun 1984), the facts of West Greenlandic still compel a syntactic analysis (Sadock to appear b).…”

Section: A Treatment Of West Greenlandic Noun Incorporationmentioning

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Autolexical syntax: A proposal for the treatment of noun incorporation and similar phenomena

Sadock

1985

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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The Evolution of Noun Incorporation

Cited by 240 publications

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In other words: external modifiers in Georgian

In other words: external modifiers in Georgian

Sufijos de transitividad en la lengua yaqui: un estudio de interfaz entre la morfología y la sintaxis

Autolexical syntax: A proposal for the treatment of noun incorporation and similar phenomena

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