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Subject(s)

• Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax [Browse]
• Semantics [Browse]
• Grammar, Comparative and general—Noun [Browse]
• Definiteness (Linguistics) [Browse]
• Kalâtdlisut dialect—Syntax [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Series

Dissertations in linguistics. [More in this series]

Summary note

• This volume presents "Semantic Incorporation" as an analysis accounting for many striking similarities between the semantic properties of incorporated nouns in West Greenlandic and bare plurals and split noun phrases in West Germanic language. This analysis uniformly treats these nominal expressions as predicative indefinites. At the outset, Van Geenhoven explores the empirical basis for why Semantic Incorporation is needed.
• The inability of existing semantic theories of indefinites as well as current structural approaches to Noun Incorporation to account for the data observed is then explored, and finally, the work presents Semantic Incorporation as a subtheory of indefinites. This volume will be of interest to semanticists, lexicalists, sytacticians and linguists.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-247).

Language note

Includes examples in German and Kalâtdlisut.

Contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Aspects of Noun Incorporation in West Greenlandic
• 3. Setting the Semantic Scene
• 4. Setting the Syntactic Scene
• 5. Semantic Incorporation
• 6. The Scope of Indefinites
• 7. Summary and Open Ends.

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ISBN

• 157586133X (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1575861321 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

98012973

OCLC

38542618

RCP

C - O

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