Full Description
This volume brings together recent research on the semantics and syntax of pseudo-incorporation (PI), which is a construction of crucial significance for linguistic explorations as it brings together several fundamental areas of linguistic research, such as morphology, argument structure, modification, discourse and information structure. The main purpose of the book is to further improve our understanding of the phenomenon, expand the domain of inquiry by bringing into focus new empirical data from a wide array of languages, offer new formal analyses of PI, and strengthen the links with other related phenomena, such as bare nominals. Focusing on various properties of PI the articles in this volume set an excellent ground for further expansion of research in PI and related topics.
Contributors are Michael Barrie, Olga Borik, Veneeta Dayal, Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, Werner Frey, Berit Gehrke, Ion Giurgea, Audrey Li, Fereshteh Modarresi, Olav Mueller-Reichau, Natalia Serdobolskaya, and Henriëtte de Swart.
Contents
An Introduction to the Syntax and Semantics of Pseudo-Incorporation
Olga Borik and Berit Gehrke
part 1: General Questions: Delimiting the Phenomenon; Pseudo-Incorporation and Bare Nominals
Incorporation: Morpho-Syntactic vs. Semantic Considerations
Veneeta Dayal
Weak Reference and Property Denotation. Two Types of Pseudo-Incorporated Bare Nominals
Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin and Ion Giurgea
Constructions with and without Articles
Henriëtte de Swart
part 2: Case Studies: The Role of Case and the Discourse Properties of Pseudo-Incorporated Nominals
The Semantics of (Pseudo) Incorporation and Case
Michael Barrie and Audrey Li
Discourse Properties of Bare Noun Objects
Fereshteh Modarresi
part 3: Possible Empirical Extensions
NP-Incorporation in German
Werner Frey
Pseudo-Incorporation in Russian? Aspectual Competition and Bare Singular Interpretation
Olav Mueller-Reichau
Pseudoincorporation Analysis of Unmarked Direct Objects in Mari
Natalia Serdobolskaya
Index
