Taking “sluicing” to be derived by movement+ deletion, as represented by Merchant (2001),
and “pseudo-sluicing” to be a base-generated structure [pro (+ be)+ wh](going by Wei 2004; …

This book provides a detailed cross-linguistic study of pseudo-noun incorporation, a
phenomenon whereby an argument forms a'closer than usual'relation with the verb. Imke …

This article motivates and develops a compositional account for bare noun incorporation
(BNI) constructions in Mandarin Chinese. Mandarin BNI constructions, taking the form of VO …

While movement of pseudo-incorporated arguments seems to be restricted generally, there
is considerable variation across languages to what extend dislocation can take place …

Noun incorporation (NI) is a grammatical construction where a nominal, usually bearing the
semantic role of an object, has been incorporated into a verb to form a complex verb or …

This chapter provides an overview of different empirical domains for which it has been
argued to be useful to add event kinds (or types) to the ontology, in addition to event tokens …

One of the first things that is often done in examining the sound system of a language is to
determine the inventories of consonants, vowels, and, if present, tones of the language. This …

This chapter discusses the Iroquoian family. We begin with a discussion of the historical
development of the Iroquoian family. We then discuss the phonological and morphological …

Noun incorporation is commonly thought to avoid the weak compositionality of compounds
because it involves conjunction of an argument noun with the incorporating verb. However, it …

Non-canonical objects in Mandarin Chinese denote instrument, time, manner, and so on,
instead of theme. The predicates that contain such objects show properties of unergative …