Contents

Chapters in this book

1. i-iv i
2. Preface v
3. Contents vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Separable complex verbs in Dutch: A case of periphrastic word formation 21
6. And up it rises: Particle preposing in English 43
7. English particle constructions, the lexicon, and the autonomy of syntax 67
8. Idiosyncrasy in particle verbs 95
9. Syntax or morphology: German particle verbs revisited 119
10. Particle placement 141
11. Extended VP-shells and the verb-particle construction 165
12. Swedish particles and syntactic projection 191
13. Dutch separable compound verbs: Words rather than phrases? 211
14. Particle verbs are heads and phrases 233
15. The influence of processing on syntactic variation: Particle placement in English 269
16. Accessing and parsing phrasal predicates 289
17. German particle verbs and word formation 315
18. Parsing verb particle constructions: An approach based on event-related potentials (ERP) 335
19. References 355
20. Index 381
21. Contributors 387