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Non-Projecting Words: A Case Study of Swedish Particles (2003)Hardcover - 2003, 30 September 2003

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Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
Part of Series
Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory Studies in
Print Length
237 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Springer
Date Published
30 Sep 2003
ISBN-10
1402015313
ISBN-13
9781402015311

Description

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.

Product Details

Author:
I Toivonen
Book Edition:
2003
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
30 September 2003
Dimensions:
25.3 x 16 x 1.8 cm
ISBN-10:
1402015313
ISBN-13:
9781402015311
Language:
English
Location:
Dordrecht
Pages:
237
Publisher:
Weight:
539.77 gm

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