The Syntax and Semantics of Pseudo-Incorporation [yntax and semantics, 40.]

VI-334 pages ; 24 cm. Contents: An introduction to the syntax and semantics of pseudo-incorporation / Olga Borik and Berit Gehrke -- Part I: General questions: delimiting the phenomenon; pseudo-incorporation and bare nominals -- Incorporation: morpho-syntactic vs. semantic considerations / Veneeta Dayal -- Weak reference and property denotation. Two types of pseudo-incorporated bare nominals / Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin and Ion Giurgea -- Constructions with and without articles / Henriëtte de Swart -- Part 2: Case studies: the role of case and the discourse properties of pseudo-incorporated nominals -- The semantics of (Pseudo) incorporation and case / Michael Barrie and Audrey Li -- Discourse properties of bare noun objects / Fereshteh Modarresi -- Part 3: Possible empirical extensions -- NP-Incorporation in German / Werner Frey -- Pseudo-incorporation in Russian? Aspectual competition and bare singular interpretation / Olay Mueller-Reichau -- Pseudoincorporation analysis of unmarked direct objects in Mari / Natalia Serdobolskaya -- Index. "This volume brings together recent research on the semantics and syntax of pseudo-incorporation (PI), which is a construction of crucial significance for linguistic explorations as it brings together several fundamental areas of linguistic research, such as morphology, argument structure, modification, discourse and information structure. The main purpose of the book is to further improve our understanding of the phenomenon, expand the domain of inquiry by bringing into focus new empirical data from a wide array of languages, offer new formal analyses of PI, and strengthen the links with other related phenomena, such as bare nominals. Focusing on various properties of PI the articles in this volume set an excellent ground for further expansion of research in PI and related topics.".…