Hovedemne i engelsk språkvitenskap, vårsemesteret 1999

E-371 (Syntax): Phrasal verbs and the verb-particle construction

Førsteamanuensis Peter Svenonius

Syllabus

Bolinger, Dwight. 1971: The Phrasal Verb in English. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Ma. (excerpts)

Dikken, Marcel den. 1995: Particles: On the Syntax of Verb-Particle, Triadic, and Causative Constructions. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Haider, Hubert, 1997. 'Precedence among predicates.' Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics.

Kayne, Richard. 1985: 'Principles of particle constructions,' in Grammatical Representation, ed. by J. Guéron, H.-G. Obenauer, and J.-Y. Pollock. Foris, Dordrecht.

Neeleman, Ad, and Fred Weerman. 1993: 'The balance between syntax and morphology: Dutch particles and resultatives.' Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 11.3:433-475.

Svenonius, Peter. 1992: 'Movement of P0 in the English verb-particle construction,' in Syntax at Santa Cruz, vol 1, ed. by A. Black and J. McCloskey, 93-113. UCSC, Santa Cruz, Ca.

Svenonius, Peter. 1994: Dependent Nexus: Subordinate Predication Structures in English and the Scandinavian Languages. PhD dissertation, UCSC, Santa Cruz, Ca. Chapter 3.

Svenonius, Peter. 1996: 'The optionality of particle shift.' Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 57:47-75.

Svenonius, Peter. 1996: Review of Particles by M. den Dikken (den Dikken 1995). Language 72.4:816-820.

Svenonius, Peter. 1996: 'The verb-particle alternation in the Scandinavian languages,' MS. University of Tromsø.

Taraldsen, Knut Tarald. 1983: Parametric Variation in Phrase Structure: A Case Study, PhD dissertation, University of Tromsø. Chapter 4.

Taraldsen, Knut Tarald. 1991: 'A directionality parameter for subject-object linking,' in Principles and Parameters in Comparative Grammar, ed. by Robert Freidin, 219-268. MIT Press, Cambridge, Ma.

Åfarli, Tor. 1984: 'Norwegian verb particle constructions as causative constructions.' Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 11, University of Trondheim.

Study guides and lecture notes distributed in class.

Additional relevant literature:

Collins, Chris, and Höskuldur Thráinsson. 1996: 'VP-internal structure and Object Shift in Icelandic.' Linguistic Inquiry 27.3:391-444.

Ejerhed, Eva. 1981: 'Swedish verb-particle constructions: Syntactic and semantic problems,' chapter 3 of Generative Studies in Swedish Syntax, Acta Universitatis Umensis. Umeå Studies in the Humanities, Umeå.

Herslund, Michael. 1984: 'Particles, prefixes, and preposition stranding,' Topics in Danish Syntax (Nydanske Studier & Almen Kommunikationsteori 14), Akademisk Forlag, København.

Herslund, Michael. 1993: 'Transitivity and the Danish verb,' in Lamda 18: The Nordlex Project. Lexical Studies in the Scandinavian Languages, ed. by Michael Herslund and Finn Sørensen, 41-62. Institut for Datalingvistik, Copenhagen.

Hoekstra, Teun. 1988: 'Small clause results.' Lingua 74:101-139.

Johnson, Kyle. 1991: 'Object positions.' Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 9.4:577-636.

Rögnvaldsson, Eiríkur. 1982: Um orðaröð og færslur í íslensku. Master's thesis, University of Iceland. Published 1990 as vol. 2 of Málfræðirannsóknir, Málvísindastofnum Háskóla Íslands, Reykjavík.

Sandøy, Helge. 1976: Laust Samansette Verb i Vestnordisk: Ein samanliknande leddstillingsanalyse for islandsk, færøysk og romsdalsmål. Magisteravhandling, Universitetet i Oslo.

Stowell, Tim. 1991: 'Small clause restructuring,' in Principles and Parameters in Comparative Grammar, ed. by Robert Freidin, 182-218. MIT Press, Cambridge, Ma.

Talmy, Leonard. 1978: 'Figure and ground in complex sentences,' in Universals of Human Language, ed. by Joseph Greenberg, 625-49. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Ca.

Taraldsen, Knut Tarald. 1995: 'Participle-based small clause complements of få 'get' in Norwegian,' in Syntax & Semantics vol. 28: Small Clauses, ed. by , 207-233. Academic Press, New York.