| Preface | p. vii |
| Contents | p. ix |
| Preliminaries | p. 3 |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| Some theoretical assumptions | p. 4 |
| A modular theory | p. 4 |
| A conjunctive ECP | p. 5 |
| NP-traces and the ECP | p. 8 |
| Incorporation and the ECP | p. 12 |
| Incorporation, indexation and c-command | p. 17 |
| Uniformity of Theta Assignment | p. 19 |
| Modularity and syntactic word formation | p. 22 |
| Small clauses and subject-predicate relationships | p. 24 |
| Small clauses and abstract syntactic structure | p. 27 |
| Particles | p. 29 |
| Preview | p. 34 |
| The structure of particle constructions | p. 35 |
| Introduction | p. 35 |
| Complex particle constructions: Preliminaries | p. 35 |
| The clause-final constituent as a SC predicate | p. 36 |
| The particle as a SC head | p. 38 |
| Conclusion | p. 43 |
| The structure of English complex particle constructions | p. 43 |
| Introduction: The theoretical options | p. 43 |
| On Kayne's (1985) analysis of complex particle constructions | p. 46 |
| The alternative | p. 54 |
| The ergativity of the particle | p. 54 |
| The particle-placement differential | p. 55 |
| The ban on clause-final particle placement | p. 61 |
| Extraction of and from the predicate of SC2 | p. 61 |
| Further support for the analysis: The Norwegian parallel | p. 65 |
| Conclusion | p. 67 |
| Another possibility? | p. 67 |
| An inventory of complex particle constructions | p. 73 |
| Nominal complex particle constructions | p. 73 |
| Adjectival complex particle constructions | p. 74 |
| Prepositional complex particle constructions | p. 77 |
| To-infinitival complex particle constructions | p. 78 |
| Verbal complex particle constructions | p. 79 |
| On particle recursion | p. 80 |
| On the non-lexical status of particles | p. 81 |
| Simplex particle constructions | p. 86 |
| Word-order alternation: The theoretical options | p. 86 |
| Against extraposition | p. 87 |
| On the locus of particle incorporation | p. 88 |
| On the ergativity of particles | p. 92 |
| Verb-particle idioms | p. 92 |
| An apparent problem | p. 96 |
| On pronouns and word order | p. 100 |
| Particle modification | p. 106 |
| Conclusion | p. 110 |
| Particles and the dative alternation | p. 111 |
| Introduction | p. 111 |
| Why Larson's analysis of Dative Shift fails: Evidence from triadic verb-particle constructions | p. 112 |
| The predicativity of the dative PP | p. 119 |
| Particle modification and Dative Shift | p. 123 |
| Particle reanalysis: A correlation | p. 124 |
| Why obligatory reanalysis? | p. 125 |
| An empty verb in triadic constructions | p. 126 |
| Decomposition of main verb have | p. 129 |
| The structure of triadic constructions and the analysis of Dative Shift | p. 131 |
| The motivation for movement | p. 133 |
| Case Theory | p. 133 |
| Licensing the empty preposition | p. 134 |
| Triadic constructions lacking a lexical particle | p. 140 |
| An empty verb and an empty particle | p. 140 |
| Word order in Dutch dative constructions | p. 143 |
| Word order in Chinese dative constructions | p. 151 |
| Interim conclusion and road map | p. 155 |
| Transformational Dative Shift and distribution | p. 155 |
| The role played by the (empty) preposition | p. 156 |
| Idioms and affectedness | p. 158 |
| Transformational Dative Shift and incorporation | p. 160 |
| Chinese Dative Shift | p. 160 |
| Triadic serial verbs and V-V compounds | p. 161 |
| Conclusion | p. 165 |
| The with construction | p. 166 |
| Particles revisited | p. 170 |
| On the cross-linguistic distribution of double object particle constructions | p. 170 |
| Particles in unexpected positions | p. 173 |
| On dative PPs with propositional subjects | p. 177 |
| Conclusion | p. 179 |
| Movement and structural ambiguity in double object constructions | p. 181 |
| Introduction | p. 181 |
| A'-extraction of the double object Goal: Evidence for an empty preposition | p. 181 |
| Restrictions on Goal movement: Introduction to the problem | p. 181 |
| Overt versus empty operator movement | p. 184 |
| Analysis | p. 186 |
| English topicalisation and relativisation | p. 190 |
| English long wh-extraction | p. 191 |
| English short wh-extraction | p. 193 |
| Heavy NP Shift | p. 195 |
| Summary | p. 197 |
| A'-extraction of the double object Theme: Structural ambiguity in double object constructions | p. 197 |
| The problem | p. 197 |
| Dative Shift and Theme extraction | p. 199 |
| Preliminaries: Structural ambiguity | p. 201 |
| Theme extraction: Analysis | p. 202 |
| Conclusion | p. 206 |
| Raising-to-subject and the double object Theme | p. 207 |
| Interactions of A'-movement and passivisation | p. 209 |
| A'-extraction of the English double object Theme | p. 209 |
| A'-extraction of the Kichaga double object Goal | p. 213 |
| Summary | p. 215 |
| German has no Dative Shift | p. 216 |
| Binding asymmetries | p. 216 |
| The binding facts of German | p. 218 |
| Analysis | p. 220 |
| Summary | p. 224 |
| Conclusion | p. 225 |
| Affixal particles in applicatives and causatives | p. 227 |
| Introduction | p. 227 |
| Homophony of applicative and causative affixes | p. 229 |
| The problem from a Dutch perspective | p. 229 |
| The problem from a Sanuma perspective | p. 230 |
| The problem from an Indonesian perspective | p. 232 |
| Synthesis | p. 233 |
| Interlude: Affixal particles in French | p. 235 |
| Two central questions for the analysis of causative constructions | p. 237 |
| The structure of transitive causatives | p. 239 |
| Two correlations between datives and causatives | p. 239 |
| The Case of Goals and causees | p. 240 |
| The Case of (embedded) direct objects | p. 243 |
| Structural assimilation | p. 244 |
| The structure | p. 245 |
| Decomposition of triadic verbs | p. 248 |
| Causatives, possession and affectedness | p. 249 |
| Ergativisation | p. 251 |
| Embedding under the causativised verb | p. 253 |
| The priority effect in French causatives | p. 253 |
| Causativised verbs with sentential complements | p. 257 |
| Transitive and intransitive causatives | p. 263 |
| Alternative analyses | p. 265 |
| Conclusion | p. 267 |
| Conclusions | p. 269 |
| References | p. 275 |
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