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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