The evolution of noun incorporation
- M. Mithun
- Linguistics
- 1 December 1984
State University of New York, Albany Noun incorporation is perhaps the most nearly syntactic of all morphological processes. Examination of the phenomenon across a large number of geographically and…
Active/agentive case marking and its motivations
- M. Mithun
- Linguistics
- 1 September 1991
A kind of case marking—termed variously active, active-neutral, active-inactive, active-static, stative-active, agentive, agent-patient, split S, and split intransitive—is shown to be less arbitrary…
Is basic word order universal
- M. Mithun
- Computer Science
- 1987
On the nature of noun incorporation
- M. Mithun
- Linguistics
- 1 March 1986
Sadock 1986 has devoted considerable effort to demonstrating that denominal verb formation in Greenlandic Eskimo shares none of the semantic or pragmatic functions of noun incorporation as generally…
On comparative syntax
- M. Mithun, L. Campbell
- Linguistics
- 1982
The Extension of Dependency Beyond the Sentence
- M. Mithun
- Linguistics
- 25 March 2008
This article examines several grammatical developments that have received relatively little attention, but that may be more pervasive than previously recognized. They involve the functional extension…
On the Relativity of Irreality
- M. Mithun
- Sociology
- 21 August 1995
Lexical Affixes and Morphological Typology
- M. Mithun
- Linguistics
- 23 May 1997
The acquisition of polysynthesis
- M. Mithun
- LinguisticsJournal of Child Language
- 1 June 1989
A number of hypotheses concerning children's strategies for acquiring morphology, originally proposed on the basis of their approaches to somewhat simpler systems, are confirmed by observations of five children acquiring Mohawk.
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