The Verb-particle Combination in English
Title | The Verb-particle Combination in English PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Fraser |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 188 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN |
Syntax and Semantics
Title | Syntax and Semantics PDF eBook |
Author | Susan E. Knutson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 148 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN |
Morphosyntactic Change
Title | Morphosyntactic Change PDF eBook |
Author | Bettelou Los |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 267 |
Release | 2012-05-03 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1107012635 |
Particle verbs (combinations of two words but lexical units) are a notorious problem in linguistics. Is a particle verb like look up one word or two? It has its own entry in dictionaries, as if it is one word, but look and up can be split up in a sentence: we can say He looked the information up and He looked up the information. But why can't we say He looked up it? In English look and up can only be separated by a direct object, but in Dutch the two parts can be separated over a much longer distance. How did such hybrid verbs arise and how do they function? How can we make sense of them in modern theories of language structure? This book sets out to answer these and other questions, explaining how these verbs fit into the grammatical systems of English and Dutch.
Verb-particle Combination in Old English
Title | Verb-particle Combination in Old English PDF eBook |
Author | Grant William Smith |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | English language |
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The Synchronic and Diachronic Syntax of the English Verb-particle Combination
Title | The Synchronic and Diachronic Syntax of the English Verb-particle Combination PDF eBook |
Author | Marion Elenbaas |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 356 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN |
Particle Verbs in English
Title | Particle Verbs in English PDF eBook |
Author | Nicole Dehé |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | 326 |
Release | 2002-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9789027227805 |
This book offers a new account of the transitive particle verb construction in English. The main emphasis is on the alternation between the two word orders possible in English (continuous: hand in the manuscript vs. discontinuous: hand the manuscript in). The central aim is to show that the choice of the word order is not optional as has often been claimed in related literature on the topic and that a syntactic analysis should thus not be based on optional movement operations or optional feature selection. The author argues in some detail that the choice of the word order is determined to a great extent by the information structuring of the context in which the relevant construction is embedded. The syntactic structure she develops is based on a substantial combination of empirical facts, evidence from theoretical research and the results of two experimental studies on the intonation patterns of the construction.
Verb-particle Combination in Modern English Etc
Title | Verb-particle Combination in Modern English Etc PDF eBook |
Author | John Greenwood |
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Total Pages | |
Release | 1968 |
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