Pseudo-noun incorporation: A DP/VP approach
Imke Driemel
September 2020 

Pseudo-incorporated arguments are headed by a determiner that transforms from a nominal into a verbal category during the course of the derivation. The verbal nature is responsible for case drop, scope inertness, and the lack of binding and control readings. The categorial approach is able to account for a set of properties which were formerly only partially covered by DP/NP accounts and raising accounts. More importantly, the current account predicts distributional differences of PNI-ed arguments, showcased in this study by Tamil and Turkish. Since they turn from nouns into verbs, their movement patterns will mimick the respective movement pattern of VPs - a property neither DP/NP nor raising approaches can account for.

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Reference:	lingbuzz/005405 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	to appear in Proceedings of NELS 50
keywords:	pseudo-noun incorporation, scope inertness, optional case marking, differential object marking, vp-movement, semantics, syntax
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