[Lingtyp] Is there 'Raising' triggered by pseudo noun incorporation?

[Marianne Mithun]

I never actually called that 'raising'. The term 'raising' comes from
another tradition and was used for another phenomenon.

Marianne Mithun

On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 10:54 AM, Алексей Виняр <alexvinyar at yandex.ru> wrote:

> Dear colleagues!
>
> I would like to ask you a question about pseudo noun incorporation ((),
> like described in [Massam 2001, 2009]) and 'raising' ((), see [Mithun 1984:
> 856-859]). Unfortunately, before asking the question I need a long
> introduction to define how I understand these notions (sorry about that).
>
> (1) P(seudo) N(oun) I(ncorporation)
>
> ne    [kai  sipi    mo         e       ika   mitaka] a       Sione
> PST [eat  chip  COMTV ABS  fish  good]    ABS  SIone
> 'Sione ate good fish and chips'. (Niuean, [Massam 2001: 160])
>
> (2) NI with 'raising'
>
> a. ətɬəɣ-e         waɬə-∅             pəne-nin
> enaraɬʔ-etə
>     father-ERG  knife-ABS.SG  sharpen-3sgA/3sgO  neighbour-DAT
> b. ətɬəɣ-e         waɬa-mna-ne-n                   enaraɬʔə-n
>     father-ERG  knife-sharpen-3sgA/3sgO  neighbour-ABS.SG
>     'Father sharpened a/the knife for the neighbour'. (Chukchi, personal
> fieldnotes)
>
> As I know, there are many definitions of both NI and PNI (see, for example
> [Massam 2009], [Borik & Gehrke 2015] and [Johns 2017]), but let's say that
> PNI is a construction where the object phrase is inseparable from the verb
> and the head of this object phrase takes no inflection, but doesn't exhibit
> any phonological cohesion with the verb. As was noted by Diane Massam,
> pseudo-incorporated objects can be phrasal (see (1), for example).
>
> There are also various approaches to 'raising', but let's stick with the
> definition given by [Mithun 1984: 856-859]: a construction, in which
> another participant can take the object position vacated by an incorporated
> nominal.
>
> I am not an expert in PNI, but, according to my knowledge, there is no
> language where PNI can trigger 'raising'. So, MY QUESTION IS: do you know
> any languages where PNI can trigger any kind of 'raising'?
>
> Note: I know that the notions like 'phonological cohesion', 'word' are
> problematic ([Haspelmath 2011]), and so NI is problematic, too ([Haspelmath
> 2012]). So, for current purposes let's say that the only difference between
> NI and PNI is that in PNI construction the whole noun phrase (where the
> modifiers of the uninflected head noun can bear their own inflection) can
> enter in the verbal complex.
>
> Looking forward to hear your comments and insights (and thank you for your
> attention)!
>
> Best wishes,
> Lesha Vinyar, NRU HSE, Moscow
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