Jim Feist

List of John Benjamins publications for which Jim Feist plays a role.

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Subjects English linguistics | Functional linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

Feist, Jim 2013 Noun incorporation in EnglishFunctions of Language 20:2, pp. 159–184 | Article
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,… read more
This paper takes up the recent discussion of what controls speakers’ use of the -s and of- genitives, as in the university’s budget and the budget of the university. Most of the paper deals directly with control of that “genitive variation”. It first argues that there is a third variant, as in the… read more