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Binominals and construct marking

  • Denis Creissels
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Abstract

Construct marking, defined as a particular technique of marking the relationships between head nouns and their dependents, is not limited to the few language families (Semitic, Nilotic, and Oceanic) in which the term ‘construct’ is traditionally used to describe adnominal possession, and construct marking defined in purely formal terms can be used for semantic types of noun modification other than adnominal possession. The use of construct marking is however particularly widespread in adpossessive construction. In the languages that make use of construct marking in their adpossessive construction, it is common that the same markers also have a more or less productive use in the formation of binominals, and if changes affect the adpossessive construction, it may happen that a former construct marker that has ceased to be used in adpossessive construction persists exclusively in binominal formation.

Abstract

Construct marking, defined as a particular technique of marking the relationships between head nouns and their dependents, is not limited to the few language families (Semitic, Nilotic, and Oceanic) in which the term ‘construct’ is traditionally used to describe adnominal possession, and construct marking defined in purely formal terms can be used for semantic types of noun modification other than adnominal possession. The use of construct marking is however particularly widespread in adpossessive construction. In the languages that make use of construct marking in their adpossessive construction, it is common that the same markers also have a more or less productive use in the formation of binominals, and if changes affect the adpossessive construction, it may happen that a former construct marker that has ceased to be used in adpossessive construction persists exclusively in binominal formation.

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