This paper focuses on scope-taking of *again* in the English particle verb
alternation—the variation between Verb-Object-Particle (VOP) orders and
Verb-Particle-Object (VPO) orders—and considers some implications of these
readings for different syntactic models of these constructions. Results
from a controlled judgment survey align with predictions of small clause
approaches to particle verbs, and are mispredicted by most variants of the
complex head approach.