Re: CHAT: Nakiltipkaspimak

Daniel Andreasson wrote:


>Me too. *slaps my forehead* How stupid am _I_? I just realized I have
>the book "The Polysynthesis Parameter" by Mark Baker at home. It has
>quite some stuff to say about noun incorporation. Okay, It's Mark Baker,
>and it's written from a _very_ minimalist POV, but there should be some
>good examples.
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.)

>Yeah. I wanted there to be connections. Though not too obvious everywhere.
That's what I did for Telek as well. :-)

>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.




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