Overview
Focusing primarily on Swedish, a Germanic language whose particles have not previously been studied extensively, this text 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.
Full Product Details
Author: I. Toivonen
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
Volume: 58
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9781402015328
ISBN 10: 1402015321
Pages: 237
Publication Date: 30 September 2003
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
From the reviews: In this book, Toivonen has produced an exceptionally lucid document, one that I do not hesitate to recommend to students and colleagues ... this is that rare volume that contributes to linguistic theory while being highly accessible. The book furthermore strikes an exemplary balance between description and analysis; it is rich in clearly organized and insightfully presented data ... . This book makes an important contribution. (Peter Svenonius, Language, Vol. 84 (3), 2008)
From the reviews: <p> In this book, Toivonen has produced an exceptionally lucid document, one that I do not hesitate to recommend to students and colleagues a ] this is that rare volume that contributes to linguistic theory while being highly accessible. The book furthermore strikes an exemplary balance between description and analysis; it is rich in clearly organized and insightfully presented data a ] . This book makes an important contribution. (Peter Svenonius, Language, Vol. 84 (3), 2008)
