How We Noun-Incorporate in English
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8727328 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert A Hall (0009-0007-8376-5875, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1956 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 83-83 |
| Publication date | 1956-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1283 • E-ISSN: 1527-2133 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/453432 |
| OpenAlex | W2326755787 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
he vwoman-brings), containing the primary suffix [-ehkwe:we:-] 'woman': [ihkwe:wa] 'woman'; or Nahuatl [ni-naka-kwa] 'I meat-eat,' in which [naka-] is a prefix representing the noun [naka-tl] 'meat. On occasion, English equivalents of the type of I meat-eat have been criticized for following their originals too closely: for example, Gladys A. Reichard's translation of a certain Coeur-d'Alene verb, of which it has been said 'A literal rendering such as he was ear-sprinkled (565), out of context, means practically nothing.'2 However, such a criticism as the one just quoted falls rather wide of the mark, in that noun incorporation is not rare or meaningless in English, especially in that of the past fifty years. Recently I have been collecting examples of this type of word formation, more or less as they chanced to come my way, either in conversation or in reading. I have not always been able to note them down; I append here a list of those of which I have preserved a record. In each entry, the order of the material is: standard orthographical form, indication of the source, citation of the context (phrase or sentence) in which the form occurred, and indication of place and date. The abbreviation Cony. = 'in personal conversation'; Disc., 'remarks made by informant in discussion of the formation'; Gen., 'heard generally.' Informants were all speakers of American English, except those specified as Australian (Austr.). Conversational informants' names are not given, but their ages, at the time of notation, are indicated in parentheses.3 If a form occurred in print, I have preserved the original spacing and hyphenation (or absence thereof); in transcribing forms noted down from speech, I have consistently used a hyphen between the constituent parts. I have considered a form as being a noun-incorporating verb if
Linguistics · Noun · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Psychology · History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 1959 - 2025 (67) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |