Author	Toivonen, Ida. author
Title	Non-Projecting Words [electronic resource] : A Case Study of Swedish Particles / by Ida Toivonen
Imprint	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2003
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0053-6
Descript	XV, 237 p. online resource

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

1. Introduction -- 1. Particles And Xโ-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. Xโ-Structure -- 3. Xโ-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. Xโ-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

1. Linguistics
2. Comparative linguistics
3. Germanic languages
4. Grammar
5. Scandinavian languages
6. Syntax
7. Linguistics
8. Grammar
9. Syntax
10. Theoretical Linguistics
11. Scandinavian
12. Comparative Linguistics
13. Germanic Languages