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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 explores eleven noun types across five different languages to arrive at a unifying theory that accounts for all properties of pseudo-noun incorporation.
List of contents
- Preface
- List of symbols and abbreviations
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Methodology and main results
- 3: Pseudo-incorporation as a category change phenomenon
- 4: Pseudo-incorporation vs differential object marking
- 5: PNI-property I: Restriction to low scope
- 6: PNI-property II: Lack of binding and control
- 7: PNI-property III: Movement patterns
- 8: Differential object marking
- 9: Previous approaches
- 10: Summary
- References
- Index
About the author
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.
Summary
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 explores eleven noun types across five different languages to arrive at a unifying theory that accounts for all properties of pseudo-noun incorporation.
