Re: THEORY: Incorporating Agents vs. Patients in Verbs (was: 'Yemls Grammar)

* taliesin the storyteller said on 2005-09-28 16:03:30 +0200
> * Patrick Littell said on 2005-09-28 08:06:17 +0200
> > On 9/27/05, tomhchappell <tomhchappell@...> wrote:
> > > 2. How co-extensive are the two types of languages?
> > >
> >
> > Well, as before, you're not going to find much prototypical noun
> > incorporation in a more isolating language.  You might, however, find
> > noun stripping, which is a very similar process and also fairly
> > common.  If you can't find anything of use by googling that, email me
> > and I'll see if I have any articles about it.
>
> Very little on "noun stripping" on da intarweb, mostly references to a
> paper from 1983, "Noun Stripping and Loose Incorporation in Zuni" by K.
> Miner and a paper that claims that Tongan does not use noun stripping,
> inbetween the hits for 'noun "stripping" in WordNet' and some technique
> in UML. I think you need to cough up your sources to the word :)
Wooh, found a working pdf to the first paper:

https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/handle/1808/479


t.