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(88) a. I gave [ Indirect object John [ Direct object his books [ Particle back]]].<br />

b. Hey, toss [ Indirect object me [ Direct object that wrench [ Particle up]]], will you?<br />

c. Would you saw [ Indirect object me [ Direct object a piece [ Particle off?]]]<br />

Den Dikken (1995, 173-174) elaborates the matter in some detail, but the reason that the<br />

examples in (87) fail is presumably due to the details of the fine structure of phrasal<br />

movement in English and need not concern us here. My point in raising examples such as<br />

(88c) is that they also display a rather consist set of word-order variations in English.<br />

(89) a. Hey, toss [ Direct object that wrench [ Particle up [ Indirect object to me]]], will you?<br />

b. Hey, toss [ Particle up [ Direct object that wrench [ Indirect object to me]]], will you?<br />

c. Hey, toss [ Indirect object me [ Direct object that wrench [ Particle up]]], will you?<br />

d. Hey, toss [ Indirect object me [ Particle up [ Direct object that wrench]]], will you?<br />

e. **Hey, toss [ Particle up [ Indirect object me [ Direct object that wrench]]], will you?<br />

What the series of examples in (89) demonstrate is that given an underlying word-order<br />

such as [Direct object [Particle [Indirect object]]] in (89a), the verb can “incorporate”<br />

either the particle as in (89b) or the indirect object as in (89c), but both can only be<br />

incorporated if they are in a particular order: (89d) is good, whereas (89e) is bad.<br />

The parallels with the BNBV inal construction are manifold, but somewhat difficult to<br />

describe due to differences in morphosyntactic structure.<br />

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