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Particles : on the syntax of verb-particle, triadic, and causative constructions / Marcel den Dikken.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dikken, Marcel den, 1965- author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in comparative syntax.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford studies in comparative syntax
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Particles.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.
- Causative (Linguistics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 288 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this title, the author investigates the distribution and placement of verbal particles, which are words that do not change their form through inflection and do not fit easily into the established system of parts of speech. He analyses data from Norwegian, English, Dutch, German, and other languages.
- Contents:
- Preface; Contents; 1 Preliminaries; 2 The structure of particle constructions; 3 Particles and the dative alternation; 4 Movement and structural ambiguity in double object constructions; 5 Affixal particles in applicatives and causatives; 6 Conclusions; References
- Notes:
- Rev. and updated version of the author's thesis--Leiden, 1992.
- Previously issued in print: 1995.
- Bibliography: p275-288.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772214-8
- 1-280-53493-1
- 0-19-535800-7
- OCLC:
- 435820373
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