West Greenlandic noun incorporation in a monohierarchical theory of grammar
this paper, I will present an alternative hpsg analysis of West Greenlandic dvs as a mixed category construction that shares some of the properties of both verbs and nouns. A dv can head a clause like any other verb can. West Greenlandic is an ergative language, so a dv can govern an absolutive argu...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.23.1476 2023-05-15T16:31:07+02:00 West Greenlandic noun incorporation in a monohierarchical theory of grammar Robert Malouf West Greenlandic Noun Incorporation The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 1999 application/postscript http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.23.1476 http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/HPSG/HPSG97/Malouf.ps en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.23.1476 http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/HPSG/HPSG97/Malouf.ps Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/HPSG/HPSG97/Malouf.ps qimmi-p text 1999 ftciteseerx 2016-01-07T18:39:52Z this paper, I will present an alternative hpsg analysis of West Greenlandic dvs as a mixed category construction that shares some of the properties of both verbs and nouns. A dv can head a clause like any other verb can. West Greenlandic is an ergative language, so a dv can govern an absolutive argument and, if transitive, an ergative argument. Unlike a verb, though, a dv can also occur with arguments that are characteristic of nouns. For example, nouns can take a possessor in the ergative case: (2) a. piniartup hunter-erg qajaa kayak-abs.3sg `the hunter's kayak' (Fortescue 1984:216) b. kunngip kunngi-p king-erg panippassuaqarpoq panik-passuaq-qar-poq daughter-many-have-3sg.indic `There are many king's daughters (i.e. princesses).' (Sadock 1991:96) As we see in (2b), dvs can, like nouns, also take an ergative possessor. Note tha Text greenlandic Unknown Kayak ENVELOPE(103.217,103.217,71.533,71.533) |
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this paper, I will present an alternative hpsg analysis of West Greenlandic dvs as a mixed category construction that shares some of the properties of both verbs and nouns. A dv can head a clause like any other verb can. West Greenlandic is an ergative language, so a dv can govern an absolutive argument and, if transitive, an ergative argument. Unlike a verb, though, a dv can also occur with arguments that are characteristic of nouns. For example, nouns can take a possessor in the ergative case: (2) a. piniartup hunter-erg qajaa kayak-abs.3sg `the hunter's kayak' (Fortescue 1984:216) b. kunngip kunngi-p king-erg panippassuaqarpoq panik-passuaq-qar-poq daughter-many-have-3sg.indic `There are many king's daughters (i.e. princesses).' (Sadock 1991:96) As we see in (2b), dvs can, like nouns, also take an ergative possessor. Note tha |
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