TY - BOOK ID - 56715430 TI - Dynamic Antisymmetry and the Syntax of Noun Incorporation AU - Barrie, Michael AU - SpringerLink (Online service) PY - 2011 SN - 9789400715707 9789400715691 PB - Dordrecht Springer Netherlands Imprint Springer DB - UniCat KW - Linguistics KW - syntaxis KW - Asymmetry (Linguistics). KW - Generative grammar. KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Phrase structure grammar. KW - Noun. KW - Syntax. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:56715430 AB - 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. ER -