Transitivity Discord in some Oceanic Languages

Margetts, Anna

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“…As a consequence, not only incorporation constructions that form single phonological words but also constructions in which the incorporated element and its host remain phonologically independent of each other are included. Such constructions, which have been described as juxtaposition , loose incorporation (Miner 1986: 252) and pseudo-incorporation , Massam 2009: 1087, are especially common in isolating languages such as the Oceanic languages (Mithun 1984: 849;Margetts 2008), which do generally not allow more than one morpheme per phonological word. An example from Niuean appears in (11).…”

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Formal variation in incorporation: A typological study and a unified approach

Olthof

2020

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This study investigates the formal variation in elements involved in incorporation structures. Although it has traditionally been assumed that only stems can be incorporated, several languages also show incorporation of formally more complex elements. Most theoretical approaches to incorporation are, however, limited to incorporated stems and the few that do include more complex forms consider the incorporation of simple and complex elements separate processes. The present study, by contrast, recognizes the many shared characteristics between incorporation structures with simple and complex elements and adopts the approach to incorporation advocated in Functional Discourse Grammar, which proposes a unified account of incorporated simple stems, derived stems, inflected words, phrases and clauses. In addition, the study hypothesizes that these forms constitute an implicational hierarchy, i. e., that more complex incorporated elements only occur in languages that also allow the incorporation of all simpler forms. Results from a typological study of incorporated elements in a variety sample of 30 incorporating languages show that all forms except clauses are indeed found incorporated and that the hypothesized implicational pattern holds. The study thus demonstrates that the incorporation of simple and complex elements is interrelated, supporting a unified treatment of incorporated elements of different degrees of complexity.

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Formal variation in incorporation: A typological study and a unified approach

Olthof

2020

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“…In Longgu, valency-reducing mechanisms are the anticausative (the prefix ma-), object incorporation, and transitivity discord (Margetts 2008). In addition, the formation of reciprocal constructions and reduplication are discussed.…”

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“…Transitive verbs head transitive clauses, those that have two arguments cross-referenced within the verb complex (A and O); intransitive verbs head intransitive clauses, those that have S cross-referenced within the verb complex. However, as Margetts (2008) has convincingly argued, in some Oceanic languages the means by which languages express the degrees of transitivity along the lines described by Hopper and Thompson (1980) is more complex than this two-way distinction. Margetts (2008:43) suggests that at clause level, some Oceanic languages should be described in terms of "at least four discrete morphosyntactic constructions" to adequately account for the range of semantic transitivity expressed in a language.…”

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“…The number of participants indexed in the clause is one factor in the overall transitivity of a clause, but as other studies have shown (cf. Margetts 1999Margetts , 2008, transitivity in Oceanic languages is more complex than identifying the valency of a verb. The Longgu data support the Oceanic tradition of approaching transitivity from the point of view of morphology.…”

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Transitivity in Longgu: The Interdependence of Verb Classes and Valency-Changing Derivations

Hill¹

2011

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Longgu (Southeast Solomonic) provides an example of the complexity of transitivity in Oceanic languages. This paper outlines the challenges of describing the relationship between morphology and valency-changing devices, and the role that valency-changing devices have in determining the primary valency of a verb in the language. It argues for the need to treat transitivity as an integrated whole, and shows that while subclasses of verbs can be established without regard to morphology, a much fuller understanding is gained through investigating the functions of the verbal morphology. These functions are linked to the semantic transitivity of the clause as well as to valency-changing

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“…These cases have recently been termed pseudo‐noun‐incorporation (PNI) (e.g. Massam 2001) or discord or semitransitive structures, as in Margetts (2008) and Sugita (1973), or noun stripping (Miner 1986, 1989; Gerdts and Hukari 2008). In such cases, there is no true morphological incorporation, but there is a reduced or stripped nominal object phrase that forms a closer‐than‐usual relation with the verb.…”

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Noun Incorporation: Essentials and Extensions

Massam

2009

Language and Linguist. Compass

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This paper presents an overview of the principal debates in the literature on noun incorporation, citing key examples and references. There has been much discussion about which constructions can rightly fall under the term ‘noun incorporation’; for example, compounding, denominal, deverbal, light verb, conflation, and narrow scope indefinite constructions have all been treated as noun incorporation constructions. In addition, there has been much discussion about where in the grammar noun incorporation should be handled: the lexicon or the syntax. This debate has shifted with the development of theories without a clear lexicon–syntax division. In the early studies, the main focus was on the morphology of noun incorporation, but in recent years, the focus has shifted to understanding the semantics of the construction, including semantic incorporation, pseudo noun incorporation, detransitivizing, and noun stripping constructions. In addition, there have been many empirical studies over the years exploring subject and modifier incorporation, incorporation of larger phrases and other topics. Noun incorporation studies also intersect with other areas such as bare nominals, complex predicates, possessor raising constructions, and classifier systems. These issues are reviewed in this paper.

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Transitivity Discord in some Oceanic Languages

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Formal variation in incorporation: A typological study and a unified approach

Formal variation in incorporation: A typological study and a unified approach

Transitivity in Longgu: The Interdependence of Verb Classes and Valency-Changing Derivations

Noun Incorporation: Essentials and Extensions

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