Non-Projecting Words - A Case Study of Swedish Particles (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 58
Release date:	September 2003
First published:	2003
Authors:	I. Toivonen
Dimensions:	240 x 160 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	237
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
ISBN-13:	978-1-4020-1532-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4020-1532-1
Barcode:	9781402015328

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