New types of binominal lexeme in Anindilyakwa (Australia)
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Marie-Elaine van Egmond
Abstract
This chapter describes four types of binominal lexeme in Anindilyakwa, a polysynthetic language of Northern Australia. In this language, two nouns cannot be simply juxtaposed to create a binominal, because modifiers have to agree in noun class with their heads. Noun class harmony is realised by one of the two components of the binominal taking a derivational prefix that allows it to match the noun class of the independently occurring noun. Depending on the construction, this derivational prefix can occur on either the head or the modifier of the binominal. This noun class harmony presents a challenge for the typology of binominals that is the theme of this book: (i) there are more morphs involved than in Pepper’s typology, some of which are non-consecutive; (ii) when the derivational prefix occurs on the head, this may represent one of the missing, “logically impossible”, types in the typology.
Abstract
This chapter describes four types of binominal lexeme in Anindilyakwa, a polysynthetic language of Northern Australia. In this language, two nouns cannot be simply juxtaposed to create a binominal, because modifiers have to agree in noun class with their heads. Noun class harmony is realised by one of the two components of the binominal taking a derivational prefix that allows it to match the noun class of the independently occurring noun. Depending on the construction, this derivational prefix can occur on either the head or the modifier of the binominal. This noun class harmony presents a challenge for the typology of binominals that is the theme of this book: (i) there are more morphs involved than in Pepper’s typology, some of which are non-consecutive; (ii) when the derivational prefix occurs on the head, this may represent one of the missing, “logically impossible”, types in the typology.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Exploring complex lexemes cross-linguistically 1
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Part 1: Form (morphosyntactic strategies)
- Defining and typologizing binominal lexemes 21
- Binominals and construct marking 73
- Compounds and other nominal modifier constructions in Pama-Nyungan languages 103
- New types of binominal lexeme in Anindilyakwa (Australia) 153
- Binominals in Äiwoo: Compounds, possessive constructions, and transitional cases 181
- NN.gen and NArel juxtapositions in Polish: Syntactic schemas employed in building phrasal nouns 213
- The derivational use of classifiers in Western Amazonia 237
- Binominals denoting instruments: A contrastive perspective 277
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Part 2: Meaning (semantic relations)
- Hatcher-Bourque: Towards a reusable classification of semantic relations 303
- Binominal strategies and semantic correlations in Turkic languages 355
- A classification of compounds in Karachay-Balkar 381
- Binominal lexemes in Moksha and Hill Mari 401
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Part 3: Acquisition
- Binominals and potential competitors in language development: Evidence from Swedish 429
- List of contributors 463
- Index of Subjects 465
- Index of Languages 471
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Exploring complex lexemes cross-linguistically 1
-
Part 1: Form (morphosyntactic strategies)
- Defining and typologizing binominal lexemes 21
- Binominals and construct marking 73
- Compounds and other nominal modifier constructions in Pama-Nyungan languages 103
- New types of binominal lexeme in Anindilyakwa (Australia) 153
- Binominals in Äiwoo: Compounds, possessive constructions, and transitional cases 181
- NN.gen and NArel juxtapositions in Polish: Syntactic schemas employed in building phrasal nouns 213
- The derivational use of classifiers in Western Amazonia 237
- Binominals denoting instruments: A contrastive perspective 277
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Part 2: Meaning (semantic relations)
- Hatcher-Bourque: Towards a reusable classification of semantic relations 303
- Binominal strategies and semantic correlations in Turkic languages 355
- A classification of compounds in Karachay-Balkar 381
- Binominal lexemes in Moksha and Hill Mari 401
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Part 3: Acquisition
- Binominals and potential competitors in language development: Evidence from Swedish 429
- List of contributors 463
- Index of Subjects 465
- Index of Languages 471
