{"product_id":"non-projecting-words-a-case-study-of-swedish-particles-9781402015328","title":"Non-Projecting Words: A Case Study of Swedish Particles","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): I. Toivonen\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45281977794711,"sku":"9781402015328","price":7345.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781402015328.webp?v=1769300807","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/non-projecting-words-a-case-study-of-swedish-particles-9781402015328","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}