[...]... Conclusion and Outline of Book This chapter has given a brief outline of the goals of this monograph and described how these will be accomplished To recapitulate, I offer an in depth description of NI in Northern Iroquoian, formulate a theory of phrase structure that maintains the core ideas of BPS and the LCA, relate this theory of phrase structure to NI in Northern Iroquoian, and finally show how this theory... productive NI The remainder of this monograph is structured as follows Chapter 2 presents the theoretical background of this monograph It begins with a brief discussion on the history of phrase structure within generative grammar and then presents the theories of BPS and Antisymmetry necessary for an understanding of the subsequent material The chapter ends with a discussion on Head Movement and its absence... familiar with the basic tenets of Bare Phrase Structure and Antisymmetry may wish to skip some of this material Chapter 3 starts off by outlining some of the theoretical problems inherent in bringing together BPS and Antisymmetry and discusses some earlier efforts in this direction Section 3.2 discusses in more detail the problems raised at the beginning of the chapter, and explores the two logically... when the verb selects a full DP complement, in the vast majority of cases, the verb will asymmetrically c-command all the material inside the DP As already stated, the empirical foundation for this study consists of NI and related phenomena I offer an extensive discussion and analysis of NI in Northern Iroquoian in Chapter 4, and I discuss similar facts in a variety of other languages in Chapters 5 and. .. 1998 Incorporation. ” In The Handbook of Morphology, edited by Andrew Spencer, and Arnold M Zwicky, 84–100 Malden, MA: Blackwell Ghomeshi, Jila 2003 “Plural Marking, Indefiniteness, and the Noun Phrase.” Studia Linguistica 57 (2):47–74 Giorgi, Alessandra, and Giuseppe Longobardi 1991 The Syntax of Noun Phrases Cambridge MA: Cambridge University Press Glougie, Jennifer 2000 “Topics in the Syntax and Semantics... a brief overview of how these goals will be accomplished Section 1.2 introduces the phenomenon of NI and presents its properties that are pertinent to the discussion Section 1.3 is an outline of the remainder of the monograph 1.1 Outlook and Goals I identify the following goals of this monograph: • • • • to present a thorough analysis of NI in Northern Iroquoian, to recast (Dynamic) Antisymmetry in... (Aboh 2004a) and intraposition movement (Rackowski and Travis 2000) M Barrie, Dynamic Antisymmetry and the Syntax of Noun Incorporation, Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 84, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-1570-7_1, C Springer Science+Business Media B.V 2011 1 2 1 Introduction The remainder of this chapter is structured as follows Section 1.1 presents the major goals of this monograph and gives... DP complements appear to the right of the verb, and what is demonstrably a bare noun appears to the left of the gerundive form of the verb Gerunds are taken up in more detail in Chapter 5 These data highlight the asymmetry between full DP objects and bare noun objects Specifically, whether 3 Of course OV word order is possible with full DP objects, as German is an SOV language The point here is that full... cooking -do ‘to cook’ OR ‘to handle well’ b 30 a ryoori-o suru do cooking - ACC ‘to cook’ NOT ‘to handle well’ Again, the idiomatic readings are available on the bare noun constructions only Both the Cantonese and the Japanese data provide further illustrations that the availability of idiomatic readings is correlated with the bareness of the noun rather than with any concept of word-hood While idiomatic... the LCA When the V selects a bare nominal root as a complement, the two elements c-command each other, in violation of the LCA Following Moro’s Dynamic Antisymmetry (2000), the nominal root raises to SpecVP to satisfy the LCA By contrast, when V selects a full DP as a complement, the verb asymmetrically c-commands the material inside the DP In the extended nominal projection alone a number of functional . (Aboh 2004a)andintraposition movement (Rackowski and Travis 2000). 1 M. Barrie, Dynamic Antisymmetry and the Syntax of Noun Incorporation, Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 84,. to the right of the verb, and what is demonstrably a bare noun appears to the left of the gerundive form of the verb. Gerunds are taken up in more detail in Chapter 5. These data highlight the asymmetry. at DGfS in 2010, the annual meetings of the Canadian Linguistic Association and the Linguistic Society of America, and the Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas. I