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Dynamic Antisymmetry and the Syntax of Noun Incorporation [electronic resource] / by Michael Barrie.

By: Barrie, Michael [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory: 84Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011Description: XIV, 198 p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789400715707.Subject(s): Linguistics | Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax | Linguistics | SyntaxDDC classification: 415 Online resources: Click here to access online
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.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: 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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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.

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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