Incorporation: a comparison between Iraqw and Dutch
Jan Kooij, Maarten Mous · Linguistics · 2002
The focus of this paper is the notion incorporation as it has been used and discussed in recent literature on the morphology/syntax interface. We first give a brief survey of the main issues in the theoretical discussion, and we point out that the dichotomy lexical or syntactic doesn't seem to do justice to the facts. We then exemplify our claim by a comparative analysis in some detail of incorporation-like phenomena in two unrelated languages: object-verb constructions in Iraqw, a Cushitic language spoken in Tanzania, and so-called separable noun-verb compounds in Modern Standard Dutch.