Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (SNLT, volume 84)
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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.
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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.
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Book Title: Dynamic Antisymmetry and the Syntax of Noun Incorporation
Authors: Michael Barrie
Series Title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1570-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Netherlands 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-1569-1Published: 20 June 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3656-6Published: 03 August 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-1570-7Published: 17 June 2011
Series ISSN: 0924-4670
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0358
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 198
Topics: Syntax