Particle verbs in English

syntax, information structure, and intonation

Von

Nicole Dehé


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benjamins.com

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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

• the results of two experimental studies on the intonation patterns of the construction.

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