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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.

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Book category Books in English Language linguistics Grammar, syntax & morphology

• Full title: Non-Projecting Words
• Subtitle: A Case Study of Swedish Particles
• Author: I. Toivonen
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 237
• EAN: 9781402015311
• ISBN: 1402015313
• ID: 01415378
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
• Weight: 547 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. September 2003

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