Dynamic Antisymmetry and the Syntax of Noun Incorporation

• Main Author: Barrie, Michael (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 84
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Syntax.

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’...

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.