Comparative Concept: noun incorporation (str)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
noun incorporation (str)
| Typ | strategy (def) |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | noun incorporation |
| Assoziiert | |
| Spraakbanken | noun incorporation (str) |
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Hierarchy
Definition
a strategy used for a range of functions but mostly for the antipassive construction function, in which the noun expressing the P - participant is morphologically reduced and compounded with the verb. Example: in He is off mountain-climbing, the P participant, the mountain, is expressed by the noun mountain compounded with the verb form climbing. (Section 8.4)