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The Syntactic Structure of Verb-Particle Constructions
Author | : Christina Gieseler |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 29 |
Release | : 2012-02-07 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 3656121702 |
Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Wuppertal, language: English, abstract: Introduction Verb-Particle Constructions occur in “most, if not all, of the Germanic languages” (Dehé: 2002:1, Olsen 2000:149). They are also known as “verb-particle combinations”, “phrasal verbs”, “particle verbs” (PVs) or “separable (complex) verbs” (cf. Dehé ibid., cf. Dehé, Jackendoff, McIntyre, Urban 2002:1). VPCs formally consist of “a verbal stem and an intransitive prepositional or adverbial element”, a so-called particle (Olsen 2000:149). In linguistic research, “there is no uncontroversial definition of particles which reliably demarcates them from similar items and has cross-linguistic validity” (Dehé et al. 2002:3) [...] According to Dehé (2002), “the perhaps most striking property of transitive PV’s in English is their appearance in two alternating orders“ (3) as the English particle “can appear on either side of a direct object, unless it is a (non-contrastively accented) pronoun” (Dehé et al. 2002:2, cf. Jackendoff ibid.). In the so-called continuous order the particle is “adjacent to the verb and precedes the DP-complement” as in (1) (Dehé 2002:3-4). In the discontinuous order “the particle follows the DP-object” (cf. 2) (ibid.). In this order the use of unstressed pronouns is obligatory as illustrated in (3) (ibid.; the following examples are borrowed from Dehé:ibid. as well). (1) He wiped off the table. (2) He wiped the table off. (3) a. He wiped it off. b. *He wiped off it. Concerning the syntactic structure of English VPCs, several questions might be asked: 1. How does the syntactic structure of VPCs in English look like? 2. How do the alternating word orders come about? 3. Which of the word orders is the underlying one? Linguists have developed many different approaches to the syntactic structure of VPCs. This paper is going to focus attention on three different syntactic analyses for English VPCs and attempts to answer the questions posed above. Before presenting the different approaches, some basic characteristics of English VPCs will be introduced. Afterwards, the approaches, namely the Small Clause analysis according to Kayne (1985) and two different complex head analyses by Johnson (1991) and Dehé (2002), will be elucidated and discussed.
A Lexico-semantic Analysis of English Verb Particle Constructions with "out" and "up"
Author | : Susan Jean Lindner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
Morphosyntactic Change
Author | : Bettelou Los |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2012-05-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107012635 |
Particle verbs (combinations of two words but lexical units) are a notorious problem in linguistics. Is a particle verb like look up one word or two? It has its own entry in dictionaries, as if it is one word, but look and up can be split up in a sentence: we can say He looked the information up and He looked up the information. But why can't we say He looked up it? In English look and up can only be separated by a direct object, but in Dutch the two parts can be separated over a much longer distance. How did such hybrid verbs arise and how do they function? How can we make sense of them in modern theories of language structure? This book sets out to answer these and other questions, explaining how these verbs fit into the grammatical systems of English and Dutch.
Verb-Particle Constructions in the English Language
Author | : Dilan Ali |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 19 |
Release | : 2022-02-16 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3346593193 |
Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: 2.0, , language: English, abstract: In this term paper the syntactic structure of verb particle constructions got analyzed. At first the verb particle constructions are introduced. The term paper mainly is about the syntactic structure of English verb particle constructions and which of the word order is the underlying one. The main focus on two different proposals of the syntactic structure of verb particle constructions and each of them have a different outcome.
Particle Verbs in English
Author | : Nicole Dehé |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2002-11-29 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027296286 |
This book offers a new account of the transitive particle verb construction in English. The main emphasis is on the alternation between the two word orders possible in English (continuous: hand in the manuscript vs. discontinuous: hand the manuscript in). The central aim is to show that the choice of the word order is not optional as has often been claimed in related literature on the topic and that a syntactic analysis should thus not be based on optional movement operations or optional feature selection. The author argues in some detail that the choice of the word order is determined to a great extent by the information structuring of the context in which the relevant construction is embedded. The syntactic structure she develops is based on a substantial combination of empirical facts, evidence from theoretical research and the results of two experimental studies on the intonation patterns of the construction.
Particle Verbs in English
Author | : Han Luo |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2019-03-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9811368546 |
This book explains why cognitive linguistics offers a plausible theoretical framework for a systematic and unified analysis of the syntax and semantics of particle verbs. It explores the meaning of the verb + particle syntax, the particle placement of transitive particle verbs, how particle placement is related to idiomaticity, and the relationship between idiomaticity and semantic extension. It also offers valuable linguistic implications for future studies on complex linguistic constructions using a cognitive linguistic approach, as well as insightful practical implications for the learning and teaching of English particle verbs.
Verb-Particle Explorations
Author | : Nicole Dehé |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2012-02-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110902346 |
The contributions in this book are a representative cross-section of recent research on verb-particle constructions. The syntactic, semantic, morphological, and psycholinguistic phenomena associated with the constructions in English, Dutch, German, and Swedish are analyzed from the various different theoretical viewpoints.
Superlative Verbs
Author | : Beate Hampe |
Publisher | : Gunter Narr Verlag |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Cognitive grammar |
ISBN | : 9783823349488 |
Syntax and Semantics of the English Verb Phrase
Author | : Michael Grady |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2017-12-04 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110909057 |