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" The stress and syntax of compound nominals "
J. C. Burstein
R. Fiengo
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1112398
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TLpq304000776
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J. C. Burstein
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R. Fiengo
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The stress and syntax of compound nominals\ J. C. BursteinR. Fiengo
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City University of New York
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1992
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1992
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Ph.D.
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171
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Both derivational and compound words have traditionally been separated from syntactic phrases in a morphological component (see Aronoff (1976), Lieber (1980), Williams (1980), and Selkirk (1982)). This dissertation examines the structure and stress of nominal compounds (N), e.g., elevator operator, as compared to N's, e.g., cheerful operator, with the structure "nonhead + head". Evidence is presented in support of a syntactic theory of nominal compound formation which shows that nominal compounds may be generated by the same phrase structure rules as certain N' constructions. Furthermore, some syntactic relations may apply to nominal compounds. For these reasons, nominal compounds are considered to be syntactic objects. Chapter 1 presents major theoretical claims which propose how syntactic relations, such as theta and case assignment, and syntactic headedness may be applied to nominal compound structure. As Lieber's (1992) "Licensing Principles" show, there is an unarguable tie between syntactic headedness in a language and compound word headedness in that language. Chapter 2 uses data from Mandarin, Vietnamese, Turkish, Kannada, and Yoruba to illustrate that this phenomenon may be seen crosslinguistically. In Chapter 3, N's and Ns with phrasal nonheads are examined and structural contrasts are noted which distinguish these two constructions. It is shown that phrasal nonheads of Ns may be productive N's, VPs, or Ss. The VP and S nonheads in Ns must be reanalyzed as Ns. Phrasal nonheads of N's may be PPs, N's, and VPs. However, these PP, N', and VP nonheads in N's are reanalyzed as Adjs. It is noted that phrasal nonheads which are reanalyzed as lexical items in N's or Ns must be "frozen". Chapter 4 shows that X-bar theory yields correct structures for nominal compounds. Furthermore, N's and Ns often have the same internal constituents. Three rules are proposed to account for alternating Compound Stress and Nuclear Stress patterns (see Chomsky and Halle (1968)) for Ns and N's with identical international constituents. Chapter 5 presents two pilot experiments designed to test the stress rules proposed in Chapter 4 which account for the alternate stress patterns in Adj N constructions. ftnBoldface type indicates that a word has prominent stress.
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Language, literature and linguistics
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linguistic stress
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Linguistics
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nominals
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