Non-Projecting Words A Case Study of Swedish Particles

Focusing primarily on Swedish, a Germanic language whose particles have not previously been studied extensively, Non-Projecting Words: A Case Study on Swedish Particles develops a theory of non-projecting words in which particles are morphologically independent words that do not project phrases. Par...

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Main Author: Toivonen, I.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2003, 2003
Edition:1st ed. 2003
Series:Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a 1. Introduction -- 1. Particles And X’-Theory -- 2. Swedish Clause Structure -- 3. Overview -- 2. Empirical Motivation -- 1. Particles As Non-Projecting Words -- 2. Arguments Against An XP Analysis -- 3. Arguments Against A Morphological Analysis -- 4. Particles and Clitics -- 5. Summary -- 3. Phrase Structure -- 1. Introduction -- 2. X’-Structure -- 3. X’-Principles -- 4. C-Structure To F-Structure Mappings -- 5. Linear Order -- 6. Economy of Expression -- 7. Summary of The C-Structure Theory -- 9. Conclusion -- 4. Verbal Particles In The Swedish VP -- 1. The C-Structure. -- 2. The Structure-Function Mapping -- 3. Head-Adjunction -- 4. Recursion -- 5. Economy And Swedish Particles -- 6. Word Order: Apparent Problems -- 7. Summary -- 5. The Meaning of Swedish Particles -- 1. Resultsative Particles -- 2. Aspectual Particles -- 3. Idiomatic Verb-Particle Combinations -- 4. Summary -- 6. Other Germanic Languages -- 1. Danish -- 2. German -- 3. English -- 4. The Complex Particle Construction -- 5. An Overview of Germanic Particles -- 7. Conclusion -- 1. X’-Theory -- 2. Economy Of Expression -- 3. The Structure-Function Mapping -- 4. Resultative Predication -- 5. Clitics -- 6. Summary -- Appendix A. Economy of Expression -- 1. The Economy Principle -- 2. Economy and Swedish Clause Structure -- 2.1. Object shift -- 2.2. V2 and Economy -- References -- Index Of Names -- Index Of Subjects 
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520 |a Focusing primarily on Swedish, a Germanic language whose particles have not previously been studied extensively, Non-Projecting Words: A Case Study on Swedish Particles develops a theory of non-projecting words in which particles are morphologically independent words that do not project phrases. Particles have long constituted a puzzle for Germanic syntax, as they exhibit properties of both morphological and syntactic constructs. Although non-projecting words have appeared in the literature before, it has gone largely unnoticed that such structures violate the basic tenets of X-bar theory. This work identifies these violations and develops a formally explicit revision of X-bar theory that can accommodate the requisite "weak" projections. The resulting theory, stated in terms of Lexical-Functional Grammar, also yields a novel classification of clitics, and it sheds new light on a range of recent theoretical proposals, including economy, multi-word constructions, and the primitives of lexical semantics. At an abstract level, we see that the modular, parallel-projection architecture of LFG is essential to the description of a variety of otherwise recalcitrant facts about non-projecting words