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A CVG Approach to Verp-Particle Constructions in English

Mansfield, Lia Vittoria DeMarco
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1284997567

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2010, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Linguistics.
Verb-particle constructions in English have been the subject of considerable syntactic interest for many years. These constructions, hereafter VPCs, are unusual for English because they display a word alternation without any corresponding semantic difference. They should not, however, be taken as a uniform and undivided phenomenon. Rather, verb-particle constructions comprise at least three distinct groups, distinguished syntactically and semantically. Not only do compositional and non-compositional VPCs require different analyses, but the compositional cases may be further divided into Transparent and Aspectual VPCs, which differ in both meaning and internal structure. I demonstrate that Aspectual and Transparent VPCs each have a "natural" word order based on their valence patterns, but that each can take on the syntactic properties of the other via operations within the lexicon itself. The variable word order that characterized all classes of VPC is accounted for by recognizing the different combinatorial systems of word-grammar vs. phrase-grammar. I model all of these alternations in the Convergent Grammar framework of natural deduction style categorial grammar, and introduce a rudimentary morphological component for that framework to capture the necessary interactions below the lexical level.
Dr. Carl J. Pollard, PhD (Advisor)
Dr. Robert D. Levine, PhD (Committee Member)
65 p.
Linguistics

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  • Mansfield, L. V. D. (2010). A CVG Approach to Verp-Particle Constructions in English [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1284997567

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  • Mansfield, Lia. A CVG Approach to Verp-Particle Constructions in English. 2010. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1284997567.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Mansfield, Lia. "A CVG Approach to Verp-Particle Constructions in English." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1284997567

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