Dynamic Antisymmetry and the Syntax of Noun Incorporation
Author:   Michael Barrie
Publisher:   Springer
Edition:   2011 ed.
Volume:   84
ISBN:  

9789400715691


Pages:   198
Publication Date:   20 June 2011
Format:   Hardback
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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.

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Author:   Michael Barrie
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   2011 ed.
Volume:   84
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.479kg
ISBN:  

9789400715691


ISBN 10:   9400715692
Pages:   198
Publication Date:   20 June 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Dynamic Antisymmetry and the Syntax of Noun Incorporation .- Theoretical Background .- Unifying Antisymmetry and Bare Phrase Structure .- Noun Incorporation in Northern Iroquoian .- Noun Incorporation and its Kind in Other Languages .- V+N Order .- Conclusion .- Subject Index.

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