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Modifier Incorporation In Dargwa Nominals

Yury Lander (yulander@yandex.ru)
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Abstract: In Dargwa languages, which constitute a branch of the Northeast Caucasian language family, certain nominal attributes may be either marked with a dedicated attributive suffix or appear without it. While it is sometimes said that the short form of the modifier serves as a base for deriving the full form, I propose an alternative direction of derivation and present evidence for the idea that unmarked attributes are incorporated into the nominal head.

Keywords: Dargwa; Northeast Caucasian; attributive constructions; adjectives; relative clauses; incorporation; morphology-syntax interface (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2014
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Published in WP BRP Series: Linguistics / LNG, November 2014, pages 1-17

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