Noun incorporation: A Chinese case?
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Hong Chi [1]
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[1] Louisiana State University
Louisiana State University
Estados Unidos
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- Localización: Word: Journal of the International Linguistic Association, ISSN-e 2373-5112, ISSN 0043-7956, Vol. 43, Nº 2, 1992, págs. 233-248
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Noun incorporation (NI) is a morphological process that derives lexical items. Mithun (1984) finds four related types of NI, Rosen (1989) two. While many Mandarin VN compounds exhibit characteristics of Mithun’s Type I and Type II NI, these typologies appear to be inadequate for Mandarin Chinese, an isolating language without a case marking system. Idiomaticity seems to play an important role in Mandarin VN compounds, where different degrees of separation between the V and the N are allowed. This goes against the criteria for NI. On the other hand, Chinese linguistics can benefit from the notion of noun incorporation, in that when the N in a VN compound is specific, it can no longer be treated as a component of the compound.
