Word Plus: The Intersection of Words and Phrases

What's in a compound?

“…It remains unclear, therefore, how such constructions relate typologically to, say, noun incorporation constructions. This is the kind of issue that could have been profitably discussed in a chapter on verb-headed compounding in Part I. Taro Kageyama's ' Isolate : Japanese ' provides a detailed description of compounding in Japanese, including its rich array of verb-verb compounds and two closely related construction types which he has discussed in detail elsewhere, the ' Word Plus' (W + ) construction (Kageyama 2001) and 'postsyntactic ' compounds (Shibatani & Kageyama 1988). As Montermini (2010 : 91) points out, these constructions perhaps call for Construction Grammar treatment.…”

Benglish verbs: A case of code-mixing in Bengali

“…7 If one takes this stand as valid, then these constructions can be but words. However, one can also propose some intermediate category between phrase and word such as Word + (Kageyama, 2001), or, following Mohanan (1994), put words into different subcategories such as 'morphological word' (e.g. complex predicates) and 'phonological word'.…”

Complex phrase structures within morphological words: Evidence from English and Indonesian

“…First, there is no rhyme or reason in the type of phenomena that have been presented to infringe the Lexicalist Hypothesis and require interaction between the lexicon/morphology and the syntax. They include, but are not limited to, transporto latte-type constructions in Italian (Lieber and Scalise, 2007), Word Plus phenomena and post-syntactic compounds in Japanese (Kageyama, 2001;Shibatani and Kageyama, 1988), 12 Scope in prefixation in Spanish (Rainer and Varela, 1992), sublexical coreference (Lieber, 1992;Sproat, 1993;Sproat and Ward, 1987), phrasal inclusion within words in Yoruba, Tamil, and Tagalog (Pulleyblank and Akinlabi, 1988;Subramanian, 1988;Schachter and Otanes, 1972), copular constructions and construct state nominals in Irish and Tagalog (Carnie, 1995(Carnie, , 2000, reduplication in Indonesian, Kannada and Yaqui (Sato, 2008(Sato, , 2009Lidz, 2001;Haugen and Harley, 2006), ergative case marking patterns in Warlpiri (Simpson, 1983), adjectival possessive constructions in Upper Sorbian (Corbett, 1987), discontinuous verbal entries in Athabaskan languages (Rice, 2000(Rice, , 2004, focus-sensitive placement of endoclitics in Udi (Harris, 2002), resultative formation in Dutch (Neeleman and Weerman, 1993), and numerous cases of syntax-morphology mismatches surveyed by Sadock (1991). The existence of these superficially different divergences from the Lexicalist Hypothesis across typologically unrelated languages suggests that the principle in (46) governs the intersection of syntax and morphology in the grammatical architecture given in (45).…”