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Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (SNLT, volume 58)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
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)
Authors and Affiliations
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University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Ida Toivonen
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Non-Projecting Words
Book Subtitle: A Case Study of Swedish Particles
Authors: Ida Toivonen
Series Title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0053-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1531-1Published: 30 September 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1532-8Published: 30 September 2003
eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0053-6Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0924-4670
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0358
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 237
Topics: Grammar, Syntax, Theoretical Linguistics, Scandinavian, Comparative Linguistics, Germanic Languages