Noun incorporation in English

Feist, Jim

doi:10.1075/fol.20.2.02fei

Article published In: Functions of Language
Vol. 20:2 (2013) ► pp.159–184

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Noun incorporation in English

Jim Feist | University of Auckland

Published online: 6 September 2013

https://doi.org/10.1075/fol.20.2.02fei

The article discusses noun incorporation in English — that is, expressions which include a noun in the verbal constituent of an utterance, as in It’s time to legacy build contrasted with It’s time to build a legacy. It concludes that noun incorporation is well established in present-day English, that it has many functions, that it is used productively as an alternative to other constructions, and under definable constraints.

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