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Noun incorporation as symmetry breaking

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Michael Barrie
Michael Barrie*
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University of Ottawa
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Abstract

This article proposes a novel account of noun incorporation in Northern Iroquoian. It is proposed that there is no special mechanism for noun incorporation and that this phenomenon falls out naturally from the geometry of the phrase structure under Moro’s theory of Dynamic Antisymmetry. In a nutshell, when the verbal head and the nominal head undergo Merge, they form a point of symmetric c-command, which is resolved by the nominal head moving to the specifier of the verb phrase. Further, it is proposed that, in noun incorporation constructions with a full DP double, the incorporated noun and the DP form a constituent, which is merged in theta-position.

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Résumé

Cet article propose une nouvelle description de l’incorporation nominale dans l’iroquoïen du Nord. Il est proposé qu’il n’y a aucun mécanisme particulier en matière d’incorporation nominale et que ce phénomène découle naturellement de la géométrie de la syntaxe selon la théorie de l’Antisymétrie dynamique de Moro. En un mot, la fusion (Merge) des têtes verbale et nominale forme un point de c-commande symétrique qui se voit résoudre par le déplacement de la tête nominale au spécifieur du syntagme verbal. De plus, j’avance que le nom incorporé dans les constructions ayant un SD double forme avec celui-ci un constituent qui est fusionné en position thématique.

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Noun incorporationDynamic AntisymmetryIroquoianmorpho-syntaxroll-upIncorporation nominaleantisymétrie dynamiqueiroquoïenmorphosyntaxeroll-up
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 55 , Issue 3 , November 2010 , pp. 273 - 301
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