{"id":1431,"date":"2010-04-05T05:05:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T09:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2010-04-05T06:52:02","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T10:52:02","slug":"booij-harvard-tues-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2010\/04\/05\/booij-harvard-tues-46\/","title":{"rendered":"Booij @ Harvard, Tues 4\/6"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, Geert Booij will give a talk as part of the GSAS Workshop in Language Universals and Linguistic Fieldwork:<\/P><\/p>\n

Speaker: Geert Booij (Visiting Erasmus lecturer from Universiteit Leiden)

\nTitle: ‘Noun incorporation and particle verbs in Dutch: a challenge for linguistic models’

\nTime: Tuesday, April 6th, 5:30-7pm

\nLocation: Boylston Hall 104<\/P><\/p>\n


\nVerbs with noun incorporation such as adem-halen \u0091to breathe\u0092 and
\nparticle verbs such as aan-vallen \u0091to attack\u0092 look like complex verbs,
\nand they do behave as lexical units in a number of ways. They often
\nhave idiosyncratic meanings, and feed word formation. Dutch
\northography requires them to be written as one word. Yet, the two
\nparts are separable in root clauses, as in:<\/P><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Jan haalt zwaar adem \u0091John breathes heavily\u0092<\/li>\n
  2. De tijger viel ons aan \u0091The tigre attacked us\u0092<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Such \u0091separable complex verbs\u0092 are therefore phrasal in nature, but
    \nthey have a number of properties that distinguish them partially from
    \nwhat the regular syntax of Dutch predicts. Hence, they have to be
    \nanalysed as cases of optional syntactic compounding.<\/P><\/p>\n

    Their phrasal structure corresponds with specific meanings. Noun
    \nincorporation evokes the meaning of conventional action. The word door
    \n\u0091through\u0092 used as a particle expresses continuative aspect, as in
    \ndoor-gaan \u0091lit. through-go, to continue.\u0092<\/P><\/p>\n

    The existence of these separable complex verbs therefore implies a
    \nlexicon with a set of phrasal constructional idioms, phrasal
    \nconstructions of the type [X V],with the X position lexically
    \nspecified. Hence, there is no sharp boundary between lexicon and
    \nsyntax, unlike what many models of grammar assume.<\/P>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    On Tuesday, Geert Booij will give a talk as part of the GSAS Workshop in Language Universals and Linguistic Fieldwork: Speaker: Geert Booij (Visiting Erasmus lecturer from Universiteit Leiden) Title: ‘Noun incorporation and particle verbs in Dutch: a challenge for linguistic models’ Time: Tuesday, April 6th, 5:30-7pm Location: Boylston Hall 104 Verbs with noun incorporation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1433,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions\/1433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}