Morphosyntactic Change - A Comparative Study of Particles and Prefixes

Informationen zum Autor Bettelou Los is a senior lecturer in English linguistics at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Klappentext This book explains how particle verbs fit into the grammatical systems of English and Dutch. Zusammenfassung Particle verbs (combinations of two words but lexical units) are a notorious problem in linguistics. How did such hybrid verbs arise and how do they function? This book explains how these verbs fit into the grammatical systems of English and Dutch. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Separable complex verbs; 2. The paradox of particle verbs; 3. The synchronic analysis of Dutch SCVs; 4. The diachronic analysis of Dutch SCVs; 5. The lexical decomposition of present-day English verb-particle combinations; 6. The diachrony of the English verb-particle combination; 7. The diachrony of prefixes in West Germanic; 8. Conclusions.

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• Authors: Corrien Blom, Geert Booij, Marion Elenbaas, Ans van Kemenade, Bettelou Los, Bettelou Blom Los, LOS BETTELOU BLOM CORRIEN BOOIJ
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.05.2012
• EAN: 9781107012639
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01263-9
• No. of pages: 266
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; Cambridge Studies in Linguisti
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures