Symmetry Breaking in Syntax and the Lexicon.
Title:
Symmetry Breaking in Syntax and the Lexicon.
Author:
Bauke, Leah S.
ISBN:
9789027270122
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (316 pages)
Series:
Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today ; v.216
Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
Contents:
Symmetry Breaking in Syntax and the Lexicon -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Merge (concatenation and labeling) -- 1.3 Outlook -- Chapter 2. Nominal root compounds -- 2.1 Nominal root compounds: A (crosslinguistic) overview -- 2.2 Nominal root compounds in German - The data -- 2.3 Analyzing nominal root compounds -- 2.3.1 The root compounding parameter and the abstract clitic hypothesis -- 2.3.2 Towards an analysis of the German data -- 2.3.3 Syntactic and lexical word-formation? -- 2.3.4 Phases and the SMT: Towards explaining interface effects -- 2.3.5 Incorporation: φ-features and phases -- 2.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 3. The nominalizing of nominalizations -- 3.1 The conundrum -- 3.2 The pattern -- 3.3 Towards a structural analysis -- 3.3.1 Non-incorporated non-pluralized nominal gerunds -- 3.3.2 Incorporated non-pluralized nominal gerunds -- 3.3.3 Non-incorporated pluralized nominal gerunds -- 3.3.4 Incorporated pluralized nominal gerunds -- 3.4 Corroborating the analysis: Data from German -- 3.4.1 German nominalized infinitives -- 3.4.2 German Nominalizations in -ung -- 3.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Small clauses (and Verb-particle constructions) -- 4.1 The data -- 4.2 Towards a definition of SCs -- 4.2.1 The general picture: Two interfaces - two paths? -- 4.2.2 Pursuing a S-M based analysis: Moro (2000) -- 4.2.3 Pursuing a C-I based analysis: Den Dikken (2006 -- 2007a -- b) -- 4.3 Reconsidering XP - XP merger: Insights from the H-α schema -- 4.4 SCs and the H-α schema -- 4.5 Basic structures and multiple wh-fronting data -- 4.6 *Enter Phase -- 4.7 Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Theoretical implications -- 5.1 Head-movement in narrow syntax -- 5.2 Phases -- 5.3 φ-Features -- Chapter 6. Conclusion -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
This book is a research monograph that explores the implications of the strongest minimalist thesis from an antisymmetric perspective. Three empirical domains are investigated: nominal root compounds in German and English, nominal gerunds in English and their German counterparts, and small clauses in Russian and English. A point of symmetry that has the potential of stalling the derivation emerges in the derivation of all of these constructions. Building on certain assumptions on how Merge works, this book shows that the points of symmetry can all be resolved in the same way; despite the fact that the three empirical domains under investigation are standardly derived from distinct structural configurations, such as head-head merger in the case of root compounds, head-phrase merger as it arises from standard complementation/predication structures for nominal gerunds, and phrase-phrase merger in small clauses. This book is of interest to all researchers working on syntax and its interfaces.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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