summary acknowledgments n v verbal compounds content length 5298 summary acknowledgments n v verbs march sent message n v verbal compounds working kind compounds catalan wished know happen languages also asked references received messages briefly sum 1 2 list people answer us although thank personaly thank 1 summary request said something like two resarchers universitat de girona sp working kind catalan verbal compounding sumarize tha characteristics compounds interested vo languages similar process verb formation n v v verbal compounding catalan clear enumerate relevant characteristics compounds 1 first must say catalan vo language 2 compounding looks like process noun incorporation incorporated noun within lexical item ineternal argument syntactic structure see 1 1 el cacador trenca la cama de l ocell hunter breaks leg bird b el cacador camtrenca l ocell hunter leg breaks bird 3 nevertheless nounincorporation doestn affect capacity verb assigning acusative case complex verb remains transitive 4 kind nounincorporation possible noun incorporated inalienable possession noun ipn new internal argument complex verb possessor see 2 3 2 corferir heat hurt b colltorcer neck twist 3 cadiratrencar chair break ferrotorcer iron twist 5 hypothesise ipn acsts kind modifier complex verbal form nt act verbal argument people gave us references listed answers coincide belief kind verbal compounds backformations adjectives er nominal compounds baby sit comes baby sitter example another repeated idea nt productive languages english romance languages nevertheless still claim questions productiviy backformation clear catalan bertienetto notes maybe relation kind nominal incorporation progressive aspect also noted literature theme see example miller g 1993 complex verb formation j benjamins j alvarez sent us interesting paper incorporation possessor ascension guajiro language inp able incorported also kind nouns nt demonstrated hypothesis yet carry research comment always welcome references alvarez jose 1994 estudios de linguistica guajira gobernacion del estado de zulia maracaibo venezuela gavarro anna 1990 syntactic theory grammar catalan compounds phdiss university edinburg klingebiel kathryn 1989 noun verb compounding western romance berkeley university california press robinson peter 1988 universals word formation processes noun incorporation acquisition samoan second language velazquezcastillo maura 1993 grammar inalienability possession noun incorporation parguayan guarani phdiss university california san diego 2 acknowledgements jose alvarez universidad de zulia jalvar conicit pier marco bertinetto scuola normale superiore dei pisa bertinet sns george aaron broadwell suny albany g broadwell albany edu anna gavarro universitat autonoma de barcelona ilfth cc uab es jose ignacio hualde university illinois jihualde ux1 cso uiuc edu suzanne kemmer university california san diego kemmer ruf rice edu arantza martinez univerisitat del pais basc fvmaeca sd ehu es peter robinson university queensland peterr lingua cltr uq oz au max wheeler univerity sussex maxw cogs susx ac uk olga fullana fullana skywalker udg es lluisa gracia gracia skywalker udg es univerittat de girona dept filologia filosofia pl ferrater mora 1 e17071 girona spain