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Noun incorporation in English

Functions of Language, 2013
The article discusses noun incorporation in English — that is, expressions which include a noun in the verbal constituent of an utterance, as in It’s time to legacy build contrasted with It’s time to build a legacy. It concludes that noun incorporation is well established in present-day English, that it has many functions, that it is used productively ...
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Two Types of Syntactic Noun Incorporation: Noun Incorporation in Mapudungun and its Typological Implications

Language, 2005
Noun incorporation (NI) in Mapudungun is different from NI in better-studied languages like Mohawk in three ways: the incorporated noun is invisible to verbal agreement, incorporation into unaccusative verbs is impossible unless a possessor is stranded, and possessors are the only modifiers that can be stranded.
Mark C. Baker, Roberto Aranovich, Lucía A. Golluscio   +2 more
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The Evolution of Noun Incorporation

Language, 1984
Noun incorporation is perhaps the most nearly syntactic of all morphological processes. Examination of the phenomenon across a large number of geographically and genetically diverse languages indicates that, where syntax and morphology diverge, incorporation is a solidly morphological device that derives lexical items, not sentences.
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On the Nature of Noun Incorporation

Language, 1986
It has been suggested by Sadock 1986 that certain constructions in Greenlandic Eskimo and Southern Tiwa provide evidence against proposals of Mithun 1984 concerning the nature of noun incorporation. These objections are discussed, along with issues concerning the discourse salience, reference, and semantic interpretation of incorporated nouns.
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Noun incorporation and phrasal movement

Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2015
While we agree with Baker (2009) that noun incorporation (NI) is not a unified phenomenon cross-linguistically, we argue against his claim that head movement is still needed for NI in a number of languages (including Mohawk and Mapudungun). Our proposal is that NI involves phrasal movement.
Michael Barrie, Eric Mathieu
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Pseudo Noun Incorporation In Niuean

Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2001
This paper examines a phenomenon of Niuean (Oceanic) often called Noun Incorporation(NI). It is shown that, since the nominalelement in these constructions is a phrase(NP) rather than a head (N0), this phenomenondoes not in fact constitute NI in the normalsense of the term. Instead, it is termedPseudo Noun Incorporation, or PNI. An analysisis presented
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The prehistory of noun incorporation in Hindi

Lingua, 1990
Abstract The Indo-Aryan language Hindi has numerous conjunct verbs, consisting of sequences of the shape noun (N) + verb (V). Similar N + V collocations in languages generally are treated by Mithun (1984) as prerequisite to the diachronic development of noun incorporation (NI). This is a pattern in which N elements become morphosyntactically bound to
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On the form and meaning of double 
noun incorporation

2014
Noun Incorporation Constructions commonly involve one noun root and one verb root, but in some languages the verbal member may be compounded with two nominal roots, which almost always have the semantics of a theme and a non-theme (a problematic fact for Baker’s 1988 theory).
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Some Notes on Noun Incorporation

Language, 1986
Despite recent claims to the contrary, noun incorporation has an undeniable syntactic reality in some languages. In Greenlandic Eskimo and Southern Tiwa, the incorporated nominal displays many syntactic, semantic, and discourse-functional features of independent nominals—features which much recent work would lead us to doubt could characterize proper ...
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Noun Incorporation in Northern Iroquoian

2011
The main testing ground for the theory of phrase structure proposed in this monograph is NI in Northern Iroquoian. This chapter presents a thorough account of NI in Northern Iroquoian arguing that NI is syntactic. It shows that the theory of phrase structure developed in the previous chapter is sufficient to provide an explanatorily adequate account of
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