@article{mithun1984evolution,
  check = {mithun:1984:evolution},
  xn-author = {mithun, marianne},
  xn-pub = {Language : journal of the Linguistic Society of America},
  source = {jstor},
  ISSN = {0097-8507},
  abstract = {Noun incorporation is perhaps the most nearly syntactic of all morphological processes. Examination of the phenomenon across a large number of geographically and genetically diverse languages indicates that, where syntax and morphology diverge, incorporation is a solidly morphological device that derives lexical items, not sentences. It is used for four different but related purposes; these fall into an implicational hierarchy which in turn suggests a path along which incorporation develops historically. Differences in its productivity from language to language show that this development may be arrested at any point-resulting either in the eventual disappearance of the process, or in its resurgence as a productive system of affixation.},
  author = {Mithun, Marianne},
  copyright = {Copyright 1984 Linguistic Society of America},
  journal = {Language},
  jstor_articletype = {Full Length Article},
  jstor_date = {198412},
  jstor_formatteddate = {Dec., 1984},
  month = {dec},
  number = {4},
  pages = {847--894},
  publisher = {Linguistic Society of America},
  title = {The Evolution of Noun Incorporation},
  url = {http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0097-8507%28198412%2960%3A4%3C847%3ATEONI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T},
  volume = {60},
  year = {1984},
}