CHEROKEE NOUN INCORPORATION REVISITED

One of the most significant differences between Northern Iroquoian and Cherokee is the employment of noun incorporation. Previous studies reconstruct productive noun incorporation in Proto-Iroquoian, arguing that Cherokee once had this process but has lost it. The aim of this paper is to offer a det...

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Published in:International journal of American linguistics 2014, Vol.80 (1), p.5-38
Main Author: UCHIHARA, Hiroto
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cognitive problems, arts and sciences, folk traditions, folklore
Ethnology
Ethnomusicology
Linguistics
Morphology
Native North Americans
Songs, folk songs
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Summary:One of the most significant differences between Northern Iroquoian and Cherokee is the employment of noun incorporation. Previous studies reconstruct productive noun incorporation in Proto-Iroquoian, arguing that Cherokee once had this process but has lost it. The aim of this paper is to offer a detailed analysis of the morphology of Cherokee, thereby showing that solid evidence for reconstructing productive noun incorporation for an earlier stage of Cherokee is found only for incorporation of body-part terms. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0020-7071
1545-7001
DOI:10.1086/674159