Marcus wrote:
> He has tons of good and interesting examples -- Baker is the King of
> Incorporation in the generative tradition (ie, he had the best theory).
> Unfortunately, the new theory he has in "The Polysynthesis Parameter"
> doesn't make much sense. You may notice that he does not ever mention
Ainu
> in his discussion of NI, though there are plenty of Ainu examples in
other
> parts of the book -- it is because his theory does not accout for that
> language at all. He never even mentions that Ainu is full of
> counter-examples to his claim. (That was just one portion of the book
that
> irritated me.)
Okay, then. I'm not a fan of the generative tradition so I guess I'll
just read the examples carefully and take the rest like I take a
tequila. (With some salt that is, not with lemon... :p ).
> > Yeah. I wanted there to be connections. Though not too obvious
> > everywhere.
> That's what I did for Telek as well. :-)
That must be the ultimate way to go then. Hihi. :)
> >Oops. The incorporated pronoun in combination with the zero-morpheme
> >for 3SG must have confused me. This should of course be:
> >
> >pilik-0 mis-0 -kulan-0 -xut
> >boy -ABS 1SG-3SG-cut -PAST-PERF
> >'The boy cut me.'
> >
> >Though, if I had said the example out loud you wouldn't have heard
> >any difference. :)
> All the examples you gave after that one also had the wrong order. :-) I
> can't criticize you though, I've done the same sort of thing many times.
What!? Holy macarony! You're right! I wonder why I did that. For some
reason I seem to prefer that order subconsciously. Well. Perhaps it has
to do with my built-in universal grammar which says that derivational
elements should be closer to the root than inflectional ones. And a person
agreement prefix seems more inflectional than an incorporated noun. :)
Daniel