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  • Chapter 22 - Verbal Particles, Results, and Directed Motion

  • from Part III - Syntax
  • Edited by Michael T. Putnam, Pennsylvania State University, B. Richard Page, Pennsylvania State University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics
    Published online:
    31 March 2020
    Print publication:
    16 April 2020, pp 516-536

  • Summary

    The status of the Germanic verbal particles and particle verbs display a number of intriguing characteristics, and they have therefore been extensively investigated in the literature on morphology, syntax, and semantics. The particles share much in common across the Germanic languages, yet they also differ in subtle ways both within and across languages. This chapter draws attention to those similarities and differences, and discusses why it has proven difficult to state a unified definition for particles. Special attention is given to several unsettled debates about the status, structure, and meaning of particles. Finally, the chapter draws attention to the interaction between particles and two related but distinct constructions: resultatives and directed motion constructions.