THE BALANCE BETWEEN SYNTAX AND MORPHOLOGY - DUTCH PARTICLES AND RESULTATIVES

This paper focuses on Dutch verb-particle constructions and verb-resul tative constructions. On the one hand, Dutch particles and resultative s share some properties; for instance, they mutually exclude each othe r. On the other hand, they show contrastive behavior with respect to, for example, movement. The similarities can be captured if to some ext ent, the two constructions receive the same analysis. It is argued tha t both particles and resultatives are base generated in a position adj oined to the verb. The differences between the constructions follow fr om the assumption that resultatives are adjoined to the verb at D-stru cture, while particles are adjoined to the verb in the morphological c omponent. This analysis has several consequences for the syntax-morpho logy interface: (i) there has to be a separate morphological component , (ii) the relation between this component and syntax is determined by generalizing meta-rules, and (iii) morphological structures are visib le to syntactic principles such as the proposed constraint on the comp lexity of heads.