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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Main Authors: Robert Malouf, West Greenlandic Noun Incorporation
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1999
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.23.1476
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/HPSG/HPSG97/Malouf.ps