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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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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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Noun Incorporation and Polysynthesis

2019
This chapter discusses the properties of polysynthesis and noun incorporation in the languages of North America. Starting with the Humboldtian tradition, it discusses the history of the interrelation between polysynthesis and noun incorporation, especially in the context of North American languages.
Michael Barrie, Éric Mathieu
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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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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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Noun Incorporation in Lakota (Siouan)

International Journal of American Linguistics, 1994
Definissant l'incorporation nominale comme une construction morphologique qui ajoute un element lexical nominal a un element lexical verbal, et dont la construction resultante est un verbe formule en un seul mot, l'A. propose une description des proprietes phonologiques et morphologiques de l'incorporation nominale en lakota (Langue americaine hoka ...
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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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Verb-based restrictions on noun incorporation across languages

Linguistic Typology, 2021
Eva Van Lier, Swintha Danielsen, Nico Lehmann   +2 more
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Language variation in a shifting community: Different patterns of noun incorporation in Modern Chukchi

International Journal of Bilingualism, 2022
Jessica Kantarovich
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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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