[Lexicog] Re: part of speech for phrases

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From: "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk at qaya.org>
To: <lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 9:03 AM
Subject: [Lexicog] Re: part of speech for phrases


> --- In lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com, "Ron Moe" <ron_moe at s...> wrote:
> > During the discussion on derivatives and idioms, a question came to mind
> > that I have been thinking about for the last couple of years and
> would like
> > your help on. I've seen a variety of 'part of speech' labels for
> multi-word
> > lexical items (phrase, set phrase, idiom, calc, prefab, etc.).
>
> > ... Can anyone
> > clarify the issue or give examples from your language? For instance
> the MDF
> > manual is good on principles for determining the parts of speech of a
> > language, but says nothing about phrases.
> >
>
> In Turkic and I think Iranian languages, compound verbs consisting of
> a noun and a light verb take full verb inflections on the verb part,
> but the noun part does not inflect at all. In Turkic the verb
> inflections are all suffixes. In Persian there are also verb prefixes,
> which in these compounds are prefixed to the light verb, not to the
> noun part.
>
> This situation in Turkic corresponds well with the normal behaviour of
> noun and verb phrases, which can be inflected in any way but always at
> the end only, like Neal's "The woman with the limp's boy." Other parts
> of the phrase e.g. adjectives are not inflected as there is no concept
> of case or number agreement, and no gender. But then the noun or verb
> head of the phrase is always at the end of the phrase, and so there is
> normally no formal difference between an inflection of the phrase and
> an inflection of the head word. Even when the phrase consists of
> several coordinated elements the inflection is often on the last
> element only.
>
> Peter Kirk
>
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>
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