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wkap.nl>Title: Non-Projecting Words Subtitle: A Case Study of Swedish Particles Series Title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 58 Publication Year: 2004 Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers http://www.wkap.nl/ http://www.kluweronline.com/ Book URL: http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/1-4020-1531-3 Author: Ida Toivonen, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Hardback: ISBN: 1402015313, Pages: 256, Price: EUR 97.00 Hardback: ISBN: 1402015313, Pages: 256, Price: USD 107.00 Hardback: ISBN: 1402015313, Pages: 256, Price: GBP 67.00 Paperback: ISBN: 1402015321, Pages: 256, Price: EUR 47.00 Paperback: ISBN: 1402015321, Pages: 256, Price: USD 52.00 Paperback: ISBN: 1402015321, Pages: 256, Price: GBP 32.00 Abstract: 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. Lingfield(s): Syntax Written In: English (Language Code: ENG) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=8534.Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue