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= Types of Noun Incorporation = | = Types of Noun Incorporation = | ||
== Mithun's Framework == | == Mithun's Framework == | ||
Languages which employ NI do have alternative, analytic structures containing the same semantic information as an NI structure does. However, NI provides a way to manipulate discourse, reduce the salience of an entity in order that other entities can take precedence in extended speech, provide stylistic and rhetorical alternatives to their corresponding analytic expressions, and even derive new lexical items. Mithun (1984) has identified four categories of NI that occur cross-linguistically. | |||
== Type I Noun Incorporation == | == Type I Noun Incorporation == | ||
== Type II Noun Incorporation == | == Type II Noun Incorporation == | ||