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Chapter 22 - Verbal Particles, Results, and Directed Motion

from Part III - Syntax

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2020

By
Ida Toivonen
Edited by
Michael T. Putnam  and
B. Richard Page
Michael T. Putnam
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University
B. Richard Page
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University
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Summary

The status of the Germanic verbal particles and particle verbs display a number of intriguing characteristics, and they have therefore been extensively investigated in the literature on morphology, syntax, and semantics. The particles share much in common across the Germanic languages, yet they also differ in subtle ways both within and across languages. This chapter draws attention to those similarities and differences, and discusses why it has proven difficult to state a unified definition for particles. Special attention is given to several unsettled debates about the status, structure, and meaning of particles. Finally, the chapter draws attention to the interaction between particles and two related but distinct constructions: resultatives and directed motion constructions.

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particlesword orderargument structureresultativesdirected motion
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The Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics , pp. 516 - 536
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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