Particle Verbs In English: Syntax, Information Structure And Intonation (linguistik Aktuell/linguistics Today)

Nicole Dehé. Revision Of Author's Thesis (doctoral)--university Of Leipzig, 2001. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [285]-295) And Indexes. 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 gr This title covers topics including: an overview of the syntactic analyses for particle verbs in English; the neutral order of transitive PV constructions in English; and the choice of word order - the role of information structure and intonation.