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and I would like to thank the audiences there for their comments. I am especially indebted to Ann... more and I would like to thank the audiences there for their comments. I am especially indebted to Anna Bartra, Teresa Cabré, Jaume Mateu and Fabio Montermini for valuable suggestions and observations. Needless to say, all remaining errors are mine. This work has benefited from the grants HUM2006-13295-C02-02 from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science/FEDER and 2005SGR-00753 from Generalitat de Catlunya. 1 The nouns that form part of [NV] V compounds are typically inalienable possession nouns (IPNs). Some examples are cor ('heart'), pell ('skin'), cama ('leg') and coll ('neck'), the meaning of which can be used in transparent compounds (like those given in (1)) and can also be subject to sense extensions to incorporate a more figurative semantics, as illustrated in corferir heart+hurt ('to break somebody's heart'). Note, though, that this type of compounds can also involve nouns other than strictly IPNs like aigua ('water') and terra ('earth') in compounds like aiguabarrejar-se (water+mix+CL 'to have waters mix') and terratrémer (earth+shake 'to have the earth quake'). See Gavarró (1990: 78) for a proposal according to which strict IPNs and inanimate nouns like aigua and terra are unified under a Non-Distinctness Constraint. In her terms, 'The Non-Distinctness Constraint allows for lexical chains to be formed by nominals which have identical referents', which she illustrates with the following example in which the river and its water are clearly non-distinct (Gavarró 1990: 81). 2 See GF (1999: 246, 2000: 79) for a different view. They propose that the IPN is not an argument but a modifier of the complex predicate formed by the verb together with the possessor NP external to the complex verb. To illustrate the point, in alatrencar un ocell (wing+break a bird 'to break a bird's wing(s)'), trencar un ocell ('break a bird') would be the complex predicate that the IPN ala ('wing') modifies. A possible paraphrase could be 'to break the bird by the wing(s)'.
and I would like to thank the audiences there for their comments. I am especially indebted to Ann... more and I would like to thank the audiences there for their comments. I am especially indebted to Anna Bartra, Teresa Cabré, Jaume Mateu and Fabio Montermini for valuable suggestions and observations. Needless to say, all remaining errors are mine. This work has benefited from the grants HUM2006-13295-C02-02 from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science/FEDER and 2005SGR-00753 from Generalitat de Catlunya. 1 The nouns that form part of [NV] V compounds are typically inalienable possession nouns (IPNs). Some examples are cor ('heart'), pell ('skin'), cama ('leg') and coll ('neck'), the meaning of which can be used in transparent compounds (like those given in (1)) and can also be subject to sense extensions to incorporate a more figurative semantics, as illustrated in corferir heart+hurt ('to break somebody's heart'). Note, though, that this type of compounds can also involve nouns other than strictly IPNs like aigua ('water') and terra ('earth') in compounds like aiguabarrejar-se (water+mix+CL 'to have waters mix') and terratrémer (earth+shake 'to have the earth quake'). See Gavarró (1990: 78) for a proposal according to which strict IPNs and inanimate nouns like aigua and terra are unified under a Non-Distinctness Constraint. In her terms, 'The Non-Distinctness Constraint allows for lexical chains to be formed by nominals which have identical referents', which she illustrates with the following example in which the river and its water are clearly non-distinct (Gavarró 1990: 81). 2 See GF (1999: 246, 2000: 79) for a different view. They propose that the IPN is not an argument but a modifier of the complex predicate formed by the verb together with the possessor NP external to the complex verb. To illustrate the point, in alatrencar un ocell (wing+break a bird 'to break a bird's wing(s)'), trencar un ocell ('break a bird') would be the complex predicate that the IPN ala ('wing') modifies. A possible paraphrase could be 'to break the bird by the wing(s)'.