Is There Noun Incorporation In Telugu?
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The paper concentrates on the phenomenon of Noun Incorporation (NI here after) as treated by Baker (1988) and other researchers. The linguists have a varied opinion on NI. As nominal Complex Predicates (CPs hereafter) and NI constructions seem to have the same grammatical elements and look alike, there arise some basic questions as to whether both nominal CPs and noun incorporated constructions refer to the same structures or they address different structures. Is NI a syntactic movement? How do incorporated nouns behave semantically as well as functionally in general and in Telugu (a Dravidian language) in particular -if at all there are- are some of the questions that will be addressed. Based on the analysis made by many researchers in different languages on NI, the paper tries to finally take up the analyses made by Tara Mohanan (2007) and also Fetemeh Nemati (2010), which stick to Baker’s analysis and further try to distinguish NI from CP constructions, and concentrate on the phenomenon of NI in Telugu.
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