Research Catalog

Title

Particles : on the syntax of verb-particle, triadic, and causative constructions / Marcel den Dikken.

Author

Dikken, Marcel den, 1965-

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

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Description

xii, 288 pages; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Oxford studies in comparative syntax

Uniform Title

Oxford studies in comparative syntax.

Subjects

• Grammar, Comparative and general > Particles
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Verb
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
• Causative (Linguistics)

Note

• Rev. and updated version of the author's thesis--Leiden, 1992.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• 1. Preliminaries. 1.2. Some theoretical assumptions. 1.3. Particles -- 2. The structure of particle constructions. 2.2. Complex particle constructions: Preliminaries. 2.3. The structure of English complex particle constructions. 2.4. Simplex particle constructions -- 3. Particles and the dative alternation. 3.2. Why Larson's analysis of Dative Shift fails: Evidence from triadic verb-particle constructions. 3.3. The predicativity of the dative PP. 3.4. Particle modification and Dative Shift. 3.5. Particle reanalysis: A correlation. 3.6. Why obligatory reanalysis? 3.7. An empty verb in triadic constructions. 3.8. Decomposition of main verb have. 3.9. The structure of triadic constructions and the analysis of Dative Shift. 3.10. The motivation for movement. 3.11. Triadic constructions lacking a lexical particle. 3.12. Transformational Dative Shift and distribution. 3.13. Transformational Dative Shift and incorporation. 3.14. The with construction. 3.15. Particles revisited.
• 4. Movement and structural ambiguity in double object constructions. 4.2. A'-extraction of the double object Goal: Evidence for an empty preposition. 4.3. A'-extraction of the double object Theme: Structural ambiguity in double object constructions. 4.4. Raising-to-subject and the double object Theme. 4.5. Interactions of A'-movement and passivisation. 4.6. German has no Dative Shift -- 5. Affixal particles in applicatives and causatives. 5.2. Homophony of applicative and causative affixes. 5.3. The structure of transitive causatives -- 6. Conclusions.

ISBN

• 0195091345 (cloth)
• 0195091353 (pbk.)

LCCN

94041274

OCLC

• 31411193
• ocm31411193

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries