Non-projecting words : a case study of Swedish particles / by Ida Toivonen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Toivonen, Ida.

Series:

Studies in natural language and linguistic theory ; v. 58.

Studies in natural language and linguistic theory ; v. 58

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Swedish language--Verb.

Swedish language.

Swedish language--Particles.

Physical Description:

xv, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, [2003]

Contents:

1. Particles and X'-theory 4

2. Swedish clause structure 10

Chapter 2. Empirical motivation 15

1. Particles as non-projecting words 16

2. Arguments against an XP analysis 25

2.1. Particles as XPs: Basic problems 25

2.2. Particles as XPs: Transformational analyses 27

3. Arguments against a morphological analysis 36

4. Particles and clitics 41

4.1. Testing particles for clitichood 42

4.2. A typology of words 45

Chapter 3. Phrase structure 53

2. X'-structure 55

3. X'-principles 61

4. C-structure to F-structure mappings 66

5. Linear order 69

6. Economy of Expression 70

7. Summary of the C-structure theory 71

8. Non-projecting words in other frameworks 73

8.1. Principles and Parameters Theory 73

8.2. Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar 77

Chapter 4. Verbal Particles in the Swedish VP 84

1. The C-structure 84

2. The structure-function mapping 93

3. Head-adjunction 94

3.1. Topicalization 95

3.2. Conjunction 97

4. Recursion 99

5. Economy and Swedish particles 101

6. Word order: Apparent problems 103

6.1. Particles as modifiers 104

6.2. The Directed Motion Construction 107

Chapter 5. The meaning of Swedish particles 112

1. Resultative particles 112

1.1. Condition P 114

1.2. Lexical and syntactic representation 120

1.3. Results predicated of subjects 126

2. Aspectual particles 132

2.1. The aspect marker pa 135

2.2. The aspect marker upp 139

2.3. The aspect marker till 141

2.4. Remaining issues 142

3. Idiomatic verb-particle combinations 144

3.1. Idioms and semi-idioms 144

3.2. Argument structure 150

3.3. Analysis 155

Chapter 6. Other Germanic languages 159

1. Danish 160

2. German 162

3. English 166

3.1. Optionality 166

3.2. Complex verbs 169

4. The complex particle construction 176

4.1. Arguments for a constructional analysis of the CPC 179

4.2. An alternative construction 185

5. An overview of Germanic particles 187

1. X'-theory 189

2. Economy of Expression 191

3. The structure-function mapping 192

4. Resultative predication 193

5. Clitics 194

Appendix A. Economy of Expression 197

1. The Economy Principle 197

2. Economy and Swedish clause structure 202

2.1. Object shift 202

2.2. V2 and Economy 205.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-226) and indexes.

ISBN:

1402015313

1402015321

OCLC:

52806209