In Lakota (Siouan) nouns (N) frequently occur adjacent to stative verbs (SV). Extant descriptions of Lakota grammar treat the as a syntactic compound in which the SV modifies the N. The present study offers a novel analysis that shows that the N and SV are uncompounded and that postnominal modification occurs only when the sequence is RP-internal, whereas in clause-final position it functions as a complex predicate. This analysis solves numerous outstanding issues from several areas of Lakota grammar including modification, modifier phrases, noun incorporation, inalienable possession, compounding, word formation, stress position, referentiality, and information structure.

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Lakota 中带名词和静态动词的复杂谓词：角色和参考语法分析

在 Lakota (Siouan) 中，名词 (N) 经常出现在静态动词 (SV) 旁边。现有的 Lakota 语法描述将 s 视为一种句法复合，其中 SV 修饰了 N。本研究提供了一种新的分析，表明 N 和 SV 是未复合的，并且仅当序列是 RP 内部时才发生后名修饰，而在子句结束位置，它充当一个复杂的谓词。这种分析解决了 Lakota 语法几个领域的许多突出问题，包括修饰、修饰词短语、名词合并、不可剥夺的占有、复合、构词、重音位置、指称和信息结构。