Cherokee Noun Incorporation Revisited
Hiroto Uchihara · International Journal of American Linguistics · 2014
One of the most significant differences between Northern Iroquoian and Cherokee is the employment of noun incorporation. Previous studies reconstruct productive noun incorporation in Proto-Iroquoian, arguing that Cherokee once had this process but has lost it. The aim of this paper is to offer a detailed analysis of the morphology of Cherokee, thereby showing that solid evidence for reconstructing productive noun incorporation for an earlier stage of Cherokee is found only for incorporation of body-part terms.