Some characteristics of noun phrases in West Greenlandic

Surface Composition as Bridging

“…In the example section 3 this universal claim will be illustrated by drawing a semantic parallel between English transitives and so-called 'noun incorporation' of Greenlandic Eskimo. This term, coined by Rischel (1971)…”

“…thing that realizes this kind. That the bare nominal stem leaves the number unspecified is shown most clearly by noun incorporation -e.g., illu-si-vu-nga in (14) can mean 'I got a house' or 'I got some houses' (as noted by Rischel 1971). I assume that this underspecification is resolved by the number inflection in Eskimo and English alike (i.e., and 15 First, all verbs locate their eventualities in relation to the current topic time (dτ).…”

Maria Bittner, Case, scope, and binding. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1994. Pp. x + 202.

“…Although Bittner is one of the few researchers to explore the semantic and binding properties of Inuit, there have been many works investigating the structural properties of the language, for example, Mey (1969), Rischel (1971), Woodbury (1977Woodbury ( , 1985, Sadock (1980Sadock ( , 1985, Smith (1984) and Johns (1987Johns ( , 1992. The thoroughness with which Bittner analyzes these structures demonstrates her extensive knowledge of the language.…”

Autolexical syntax: A proposal for the treatment of noun incorporation and similar phenomena

“…J0rgen Rischel (1971Rischel ( , 1972 and I (Sadock 1980) have elsewhere given a good deal of evidence for the syntactic nature of noun incorporation in West Greenlandic. Though the syntactic relevance of the incorporated nominal has lately been called into question for other languages (Mithun 1984), the facts of West Greenlandic still compel a syntactic analysis (Sadock to appear b).…”