Symmetry breaking in syntax and the lexicon / Leah S. Bauke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bauke, Leah S., author.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 216.

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 0166-0829 ; Volume 216

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Minimalist theory (Linguistics).

Lexical-functional grammar.

English language--Syntax.

English language.

German language--Syntax.

German language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027270122

9027270120

OCLC:

882480475