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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. | 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 === | ||
Minhast utilizes Type I NI to create lexical compounds but only if a particular activity, state, or event occurs frequently to warrant institutionalizing into the lexicon. Usually, one or both elements of the compound are shortened, as in the following examples: | |||
5a) aydann- “To store water in a cistern, reservoir, or catch-basin” (derived from ayaya- “putsomething into a container” + dannua “water”) | |||
5b) uzdann- → uzzat-dannua “To draw water from a well” (derived from uzzat- “to pull | |||
something out of a container or other enclosing object, e.g. an envelope” + dannua “water” Compounding NI is a derivational process. If the compound yields a new verb, it has the full | |||
status and capabilities of a verb not derived from compounding, including NI: | |||
5c) Aydantayattaran → aydann-tayatta-ar-an “He poisoned the well” (lit. “He stored the water with poison). | |||
== Type II Noun Incorporation == | == Type II Noun Incorporation == | ||
== Type III Noun Incorporation == | == Type III Noun Incorporation == | ||