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Compounding and Incorporation in the Ket Language: Implications for a More Unified Theory of Compounding

Compounding in the world’s languages is a complex word-­‐formation process that is not easily accounted for. Moreover, incorporation is equally complex and problematic. This examination of compounding and incorporation in the Ket language seeks to identify the underlying logic of these processes and to work towards a typology that captures generalizations among the numerous ways in which languages expand their lexicons through these processes. Canonical Typology provides a framework that does just this. A preliminary canonical typology of compounds is proposed here, one that subsumes a range of compounds as well as incorporation. For this reason, the Ket language, which relies heavily on compounding and incorporation, will be used as a test case. The aim is to define the canonical com

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:uky.edu/oai:uknowledge.uky.edu:ltt_etds-1000
Date01 January 2014
CreatorsSmith, Benjamin C
PublisherUKnowledge
Source SetsUniversity of Kentucky
Detected LanguageEnglish
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SourceTheses and Dissertations--Linguistics

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