Dynamic Antisymmetry and the Syntax of Noun Incorporation
Authors: Barrie, Michael
Free Preview- Ties together two influential theories of phrase structure, Bare Phrase Structure and Antisymmetry, in a fresh and innovative way
- Offers an insightful and elegant analysis of noun incorporation
- Provides a wide empirical coverage of noun incorporation and related phenomena
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This innovative analysis of noun incorporation and related linguistic phenomena does more than just give readers an insightful exploration of its subject. The author re-evaluates—and forges links between—two influential theories of phrase structure: Chomsky’s Bare Phrase Structure and Richard Kayne’s Antisymmetry. The text details how the two linguistic paradigms interact to cause differing patterns of noun incorporation across world languages. With a solid empirical foundation in its close reading of Northern Iroquoian languages especially, Barrie argues that noun incorporation needs no special mechanism, but results from a symmetry-breaking operation.
Drawing additional data from English, German, Persian, Tamil and the Polynesian language Niuean, this synthesis has major implications for our understanding of the formation of the verbal complex and the intra-position (roll-up) movement. It will be priority reading for students of phrase structure, as well as Iroquoian language scholars.
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-22
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Theoretical Background
Pages 23-52
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Unifying Antisymmetry and Bare Phrase Structure
Pages 53-91
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Noun Incorporation in Northern Iroquoian
Pages 93-126
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Noun Incorporation and Its Kind in Other Languages
Pages 127-157
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Dynamic Antisymmetry and the Syntax of Noun Incorporation
- Authors
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- Michael Barrie
- Series Title
- Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
- Series Volume
- 84
- Copyright
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Netherlands
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-007-1570-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-007-1570-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-1569-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-3656-6
- Series ISSN
- 0924-4670
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIV, 198
- Topics
