Symmetry Breaking In Syntax And The Lexicon
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Symmetry Breaking in Syntax and the Lexicon
Author: Leah S. Bauke
language: en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date: 2014-07-15
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.
Symmetry Breaking in Syntax
Author: Hubert Haider
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2013
A new theory of grammar which explores the old distinction between OV and VO languages and their underlying basic asymmetry.
Labels and Roots
Author: Leah Bauke
language: en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date: 2017-09-25
This volume provides in-depth exploration of the issues of labeling and roots, with a balance of empirical and conceptual/theoretical analyses. The papers explore key questions that must ultimately be addressed in the development of generative theories: how do theories of labels and roots relate to syntax-internal computation, to semantics, to morphology, and to phonology?