Pseudoincorporation Analysis of Unmarked Direct Objects in Mari
Pseudoincorporation Analysis of Unmarked Direct Objects in Mari
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Mari中无标记直接宾语的伪并入分析
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10.1163/9789004291089_010
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2015
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Olav Mueller-Reichau
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作者:
Olav Mueller-Reichau
The term “incorporation” is most commonly used to describe constructions where two lexical stems are compounded to form a new stem with more or less compositional meaning (eg apple-picking). In recent literature, more and more examples have been presented of constructions that resemble incorporation, but do not exactly involve stem compounding: for instance, where a caseless NP occurs adjacent to the verb and may not take any nominal inflectionalmarkers, butmaybemodifiedbyadjectivesandnumeralsandconjoined withotherNPs. Suchconstructionshavebeenlabelled ‘syntacticincorporation’or ‘pseudoincorporation’(cf. Sadock 1986 and Mithun 1984; see also Mithun 2010, where it is argued that incorporation is a continuum rather than a single clear-cut process).Pseudoincorporation has been defined on the basis of both syntactic and semantic properties of NPs. For example, Massam (2001, 193) defines pseudoincorporationasa “grammaticalphenomenonwhichischaracterizedbythe existence in a sentence of a non-referential internal argument… an NP (not DP)” which is not morphologically incorporatedintothe verb. The criteria proposed by Dayal (2011) are absence of case marking, non-specificity, number neutrality with atelic predicates, discourse opacity and the phrasal structure of direct objects (DOs), while verb adjacency is not required. Farkas and de Swart mention non-specificity, absence of articles, discourse opacity, number neutrality, and strict verb adjacency, but allow the presence of case marking (cf. also the discussion in (Farkas and de Swart 2003, 1–6)). Espinal and McNally (2011) list absence of articles, non-specificity, and discourse opacity; for them, however, plural marking and phrasal structure in the nominal complex are acceptable.