{"product_id":"non-projecting-words-i-toivonen-9781402015311","title":"Non-Projecting Words: A Case Study of Swedish Particles","description":"Focusing primarily on Swedish, a Germanic language whose particles have not previously been studied extensively, \u003cstrong\u003eNon-Projecting Words: A Case Study on Swedish Particles\u003c\/strong\u003e develops a theory of non-projecting words in which particles are morphologically independent words that do not project phrases. \u003cbr\u003eParticles 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. \u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e I. Toivonen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1402015313\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781402015311\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Springer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 237\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.96h x 6.30w x 0.71d","brand":"I. Toivonen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47424303235327,"sku":"9781402015311","price":109.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e48a4bef-cc12-4868-b1cd-9c103d78aa57.jpg?v=1761529458","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/non-projecting-words-i-toivonen-9781402015311","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}