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Coordination and Antisymmetry Theory: Some Evidence from Germanic

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John R. te Velde
John R. te Velde
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Oklahoma State UniversityDepartment of Foreign Languages and Literatures309 GUStillwater, OK 74078–1054 [forljrv@osunx.ucc.okstate.edu]
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A major recent development in minimalist syntactic theory concerns phrase structure. Kayne (1994) claims that all phrases are binary, asymmetric, and left-headed. The implications of this restrictive theory for coordination as a syntactic phenomenon are quite broad. Most significantly, coordination can no longer be represented as the union of symmetrical conjuncts; rather, conjuncts are projections of the conjunction, a head, and stand in an asymmetric relation to each other.

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Journal of Germanic Linguistics , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , Fall 1996 , pp. 135 - 175
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Copyright © Society for Germanic Linguistics 1996

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