Tongan Noun Incorporation: Words and Phrases
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Analyses of Tongan noun incorporation in the general typological surveys of noun incorporation (Mithun 1984, Gerdts 1998) have argued that this Tongan construction involves syntactic juxtaposition of a verb and a single noun. Given data as such in (1), this would seem to be correct, since ordinary transitive sentences like (1a) contrast with sentences with incorporation, like (1b), in that the latter lacks all prenominal function words and the verb and noun seem to appear as words placed immediately next to each other.
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