COMPLEXITY OF PHRASES, MULTIPLICITY OF MEANINGS, FLEXIBILITY OF FORMS

Abstract

Complexity of phrases distill three main concluding remarks: First, particles, defined as basically spatial elements which can occur between a verb and an object  and which do not directly govern this or any other object, can head full-fledged semantic phrases which contain a multiplicity of structural positions. In a particle phrase, there is a position for: one or two pre-modifying particles - back, on and along; a post-modifier or complement;one or more peripheral modifiers to the left: onomatopoeias like bang and plumb, intensifying adjectives like right and straight and, most exterior, quantifying expressions like completely, high, and several inches; some of these peripheral modifiers can also occur to the right.