Series | Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies
Monograph | Materials and Methods of Analysis for the Study of the Ainu Language
Chapter | 8 • Noun Incorporation
8 • Noun Incorporation
Abstract
Noun incorporation (NI) is a process by which a noun stem, a noun
root, or a noun phrase is combined with a verb to form one single
stem. There have been many approaches to noun incorporation, some
of which discuss it as a morphological process and some others that discuss it as a syntactic process or as semantic process. Traditionally,
NI is said to be a valency-decreasing strategy, meaning that when
the noun is incorporated in the verb this latter subcategorises for
one less argument – if it is a transitive verb it becomes intransitive,
if it is an intransitive verb already it becomes a zero-valency verb.
After incorporation happens, the incorporated noun does not count
as a verbal argument anymore, but it is part of the verb.
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