On the Syntax of Surface-Adjacency: The Case of Pseudo Noun Incorporation
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Pseudo noun incorporation constructions in Sakha and Tamil obey a strict linear adjacency condition, such that not only the NP but its head noun must be adjacent to the verb at PF. I argue that this adjacency condition can be explained if the head of the NP adjoins to the verb to create a unit that is interpreted as a complex predicate at LF. The resulting structure can be linearized at PF if and only if no syntactic expression comes between the two copies of the noun; this forces adjacency on the construction. The adjacency condition is canceled in Hindi, however, where verb-to-Tense movement breaks up the V-NP cluster.
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