TY - BOOK ID - 8506935 TI - Dynamic antisymmetry and the syntax of noun incorporation PY - 2011 SN - 9400715692 9400715706 PB - Heidelberg : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Grammar, Comparative and general -- Noun. KW - Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. KW - Linguistics. KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Generative grammar KW - Phrase structure grammar KW - Asymmetry (Linguistics) KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Native American & Hyperborean Languages KW - Philology & Linguistics KW - Noun KW - Syntax KW - Generative grammar. KW - Phrase structure grammar. KW - Noun. KW - Syntax. KW - Constituent structure grammar KW - Grammar, Phrase structure KW - Grammar, Generative KW - Grammar, Transformational KW - Grammar, Transformational generative KW - Transformational generative grammar KW - Transformational grammar KW - Language and languages KW - Asymmetry KW - Derivation KW - Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) KW - Linguistics KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Nominals KW - Grammar, Comparative and general. KW - Comparative grammar KW - Grammar KW - Grammar, Philosophical KW - Grammar, Universal KW - Philosophical grammar KW - Philology KW - Grammar, Comparative KW - Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8506935 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 -