Idaho: Lexical Affixes, Incorporation, And Conflation: The Case Of Coeur d'Alene

Idaho: Lexical Affixes, Incorporation, And Conflation: The Case Of Coeur d'Alene Shannon T. Bischoff, 2011   This paper presents a formal account of lexical affixes in Coeur d’Alene (Salish/Idaho USA). Lexical Affixes comprise a closed class of bound morphemes which productively add semantic content to the predicate in the Salishan family of languages, among others. It is argued that Lexical Affixes are arguments that incorporate syntactically (Baker 1988) along the lines of Harley (2004)...

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