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Norwegian Verb Particle Constructions as Causative Constructions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Tor A. Åfarli
Tor A. Åfarli
Affiliation:
University of Trondheim, Department of Linguistics, N-7055 Dragvoll, Norway
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Abstract

In this article I argue that Taraldsen's (1983) analysis of verb particle constructions cannot be maintained because it predicts a considerable subset of the grammatical particle constructions to be ungrammatical, as well as some ungrammatical particle constructions to be grammatical. In my analysis of verb particle constructions as causative constructions, I borrow the device of reanalysis from Taraldsen. This reanalysis is crucially taken as a licensing condition for the rule of particle movement, but it does not constitute a sufficient condition for the possibility of particle movement, since I will also argue that this rule is subject to essentially non-syntactic restrictions so that its output cannot be wholly deduced from GB syntax subtheories.

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Research Article
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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , June 1985 , pp. 75 - 98
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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