Norwegian Verb Particles by Aa Leiv Inge;

Author:Aa, Leiv Inge; [Aa, Leiv Inge]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2020-07-21T11:58:15+00:00

skava

shaved

{laust}

{loose.n}

tapetet

wallpaper-the

{laust}.

{loose.n}

(Romsdal, WNorw, Sandøy 1976)

‘They loosened the wallpaper’

b.

Dei

they

slo

hit

{flatt}

{flat.n}

jarnet

iron-the

{flatt}.

{flat.n}

(Oppdal, CNorw)

‘They hit the iron flat’

Since adjectives like these can appear both to the left and to the right, they seem to behave syntactically and semantically (as resultatives) much like prepositional particles. The adjectival LPrt can also appear inflected, which means reanalysis of a bare lexical complement into V as posited by Zeller apparently cannot be universal, at the very least. If we include inflected adjectives in the category of particles, the first part of Zeller’s definition in (45) is inappropriate. Structural adjacency must then be rejected, because the adjectival particles need to be represented with functional structure in order to account for their agreement with neutral DPs.

However, there is a possibility that Zeller’s definition is more correct than my conclusion based upon a surface view of the Norwegian data. By hypothesis, we could suggest that all inflected adjectival particles are in fact RPrt, and hence that the DP might be extraposed in the apparent LPrt variants. (48a) gives a possible representation of the apparent LPrt variant in (47a). Note that the inflected “LPrt” more easily (although perhaps not perfectly) can be modified than a bare LPrt (48b). This could indicate that (48a) is correct.

(48)

a.

Dei

they

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