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New types of binominal lexeme in Anindilyakwa (Australia)

  • Marie-Elaine van Egmond
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Binominal Lexemes in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
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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.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents V
  3. Exploring complex lexemes cross-linguistically 1
  4. Part 1: Form (morphosyntactic strategies)
  5. Defining and typologizing binominal lexemes 21
  6. Binominals and construct marking 73
  7. Compounds and other nominal modifier constructions in Pama-Nyungan languages 103
  8. New types of binominal lexeme in Anindilyakwa (Australia) 153
  9. Binominals in Äiwoo: Compounds, possessive constructions, and transitional cases 181
  10. NN.gen and NArel juxtapositions in Polish: Syntactic schemas employed in building phrasal nouns 213
  11. The derivational use of classifiers in Western Amazonia 237
  12. Binominals denoting instruments: A contrastive perspective 277
  13. Part 2: Meaning (semantic relations)
  14. Hatcher-Bourque: Towards a reusable classification of semantic relations 303
  15. Binominal strategies and semantic correlations in Turkic languages 355
  16. A classification of compounds in Karachay-Balkar 381
  17. Binominal lexemes in Moksha and Hill Mari 401
  18. Part 3: Acquisition
  19. Binominals and potential competitors in language development: Evidence from Swedish 429
  20. List of contributors 463
  21. Index of Subjects 465
  22. Index of Languages 471
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110673494-005

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents V
  3. Exploring complex lexemes cross-linguistically 1
  4. Part 1: Form (morphosyntactic strategies)
  5. Defining and typologizing binominal lexemes 21
  6. Binominals and construct marking 73
  7. Compounds and other nominal modifier constructions in Pama-Nyungan languages 103
  8. New types of binominal lexeme in Anindilyakwa (Australia) 153
  9. Binominals in Äiwoo: Compounds, possessive constructions, and transitional cases 181
  10. NN.gen and NArel juxtapositions in Polish: Syntactic schemas employed in building phrasal nouns 213
  11. The derivational use of classifiers in Western Amazonia 237
  12. Binominals denoting instruments: A contrastive perspective 277
  13. Part 2: Meaning (semantic relations)
  14. Hatcher-Bourque: Towards a reusable classification of semantic relations 303
  15. Binominal strategies and semantic correlations in Turkic languages 355
  16. A classification of compounds in Karachay-Balkar 381
  17. Binominal lexemes in Moksha and Hill Mari 401
  18. Part 3: Acquisition
  19. Binominals and potential competitors in language development: Evidence from Swedish 429
  20. List of contributors 463
  21. Index of Subjects 465
  22. Index of Languages 471
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