| Title: | Why Give does not Incorporate in Denominal Verbs |
| Author: | Adina Camelia Bleotu |
| Publication: | Revue roumaine de linguistique, LXII (2), p. 207-219 Investigating Romanian Datives / Recherches autour du datif roumain Edited by Alexandra Cornilescu, Anca Dinu and Alina Tigău |
| p-ISSN: | 0035-3957 |
| Publisher: | Editura Academiei |
| Place: | București |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Abstract: | This paper looks at denominal verbs which can be paraphrased by means of the verb give, and argues that the verb GIVE cannot incorporate. On the one hand, it does not represent a primitive in the lexical semantic representation of verbs, an explanation which might be a bit problematic given that other non-primitive verbs have been argued to incorporate (HAVE, PUT) (Hale & Keyser 2002). On the other hand, if one embraced the possibility that nouns could be incorporated into the null verb GIVE, this would give rise to syntactic and semantic problems, such as the formation of a verb with other case-assigning properties than the light verb it allegedly derives from, the formation of a verb with a completely different meaning from the expected one a.o. Such evidence supports the idea that paraphrases need to be clearly distinguished from the actual lexical semantic representation of denominals. The paper puts forth an account in terms of the applicative analysis proposed by MacDonald (2015), arguing that, from a syntactic point of view, the DO noun is prevented from incorporating by the IO. It also argues that there is an animacy bias at stake, and that animate objects cannot incorporate, especially if they are subjects of small clauses. Last but not least, it tentatively puts forth the idea of nominal root incorporation before the selection of arguments, suggesting that the light verb GIVE might actually incorporate, but, once it incorporates (thus losing one object), it can only assign (Accusative) case to its remaining object. |
| Key words: | denominal verbs, incorporation, applicatives |
| Language: | English |
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