Minhast/Noun Incorporation: Difference between revisions
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Speakers consistently reject sentences such as the following. In this infelicitous sentence, the NP has full possessor-possessum marking and occurs outside the verb complex, while the material that made the speaker's face green has been incorporated as if it were Instrumental argument. Animacy considerations may explain this restriction; possessors more often than not tend to have higher animacy than their possessums: | |||
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|phrase = Ruppamaktirekt asumtahālpurrakmaharan. | |phrase = *Ruppamaktirekt asumtahālpurrakmaharan. | ||
| IPA = | | IPA = | ||
| morphemes = ruppamak-tirek=de asum-tahal-purrak-mah-ar-an | | morphemes = ruppamak-tirek=de asum-tahal-purrak-mah-ar-an | ||
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| translation = My face became green from the dye. | | translation = My face became green from the dye. | ||
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