Overview
This book provides a detailed cross-linguistic study of pseudo-noun incorporation, a phenomenon whereby an argument forms a 'closer than usual' relation with the verb. Imke Driemel draws on data from Tamil, Mongolian, Korean, Turkish, and German, and applies diagnostic tests across eleven noun types in each of the languages under consideration. What emerges is a coherent effect of pseudo-incorporated arguments that maps loss of case marking to obligatory narrow scope, lack of binding and control relations, and a potentially restricted movement pattern. The book provides a unifying theory that is able to capture all properties with a single assumption: pseudo-incorporation effects result from noun phrases that are made up of a nominal and a verbal category feature; implemented in a derivational framework, the nominal feature is active early in the derivation, being responsible for c-selection and nominal modification, while the verbal feature is active late and crucially derives the effects we have come to recognize as pseudo-noun incorporation. One important empirical contribution of this study stems from the observation that pseudo-incorporation does not have to be the only reason for optional case marking. Tamil and Korean provide evidence that only a subset of optionally case-marked noun types also show a correlation with scope, binding, control, and movement constraints. This insight enforces the conclusion that the same language can make use of both pseudo-noun incorporation and differential object marking.
Full Product Details
Author: Imke Driemel (Postdoctoral Researcher, Postdoctoral Researcher, Humboldt University Berlin)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Volume: 82
Dimensions:
Width: 16.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 24.10cm
Weight: 0.712kg
ISBN: 9780192866400
ISBN 10: 0192866400
Pages: 364
Publication Date: 30 March 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Author Information
Imke Driemel is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Humboldt University Berlin. Her PhD dissertation (Leipzig, 2020) explored pseudo-incorporation, and she is also interested in a number of phenomena at the syntax-semantics interface, including complementation, the person case constraint, focus, person feature systems, allocutivity, and speech acts. She is currently a member of the ERC-funded Synergy project LeibnizDream, conducting cross-linguistic acquisition studies on a wide range of topics such as negative concord, conjunction, logophoric dependencies, and genericity.
