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benjamins.com>Title: Particle Verbs in English Subtitle: Syntax, information structure and intonation Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 59 Publication Year: 2002 Publisher: John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/, http://www.benjamins.nl Book URL: http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=LA_59 Author: Nicole Deh�, TU Braunschweig Hardback: ISBN: 1588113086, Pages: xii, 305 pp., Price: USD 108.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9027227802, Pages: xii, 305 pp., Price: EUR 108.00 Abstract: 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. Table of Contents Abbreviations ix Acknowledgements xi 1: Introduction 1 2: Overview of the syntactic analyses for particle verbs in English 15 3: The neutral order of transitive PV constructions in English 75 4: The choice of the word order: The role of information structure and intonation 103 5: A syntactic analysis for PV constructions in English 209 6: Conclusion and outlook 281 References 287 Lingfield(s): Phonetics, Semantics Syntax Subject Language(s): English (Language code: ENG) Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue