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.
FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand NewParticle 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.
Bettelou Los is a Lecturer in Linguistics at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. She graduated from the University of Amsterdam in 1986 and has since held teaching and research positions at the University of Amsterdam, the Vrije Universiteit, the University of Nijmegen and other colleges of higher
education. She participates in the research program The Diachrony of Complex Predicates in West Germanic, and has published several papers on diachronic syntax. She contributes with Wim van der Wurff to the morphology and syntax section of The Year's Work in English Studies and with Ans van Kemenad
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.
'Offering a wealth of data material, the authors proceed far beyond the exploratory, presenting a coherent analysis of compositionality and conventionality, with important implications for diachronic and synchronic syntactic theory.' Jan-Wouter Zwart, University of Groningen 'I recommend this book to all scholars interested in the comparative, synchronic, or diachronic study of particles and prefixes from a morphosyntactic point of view.' Christina Hoppermann, The Linguist List (linguistlist.org) Advance Praise: "Offering a wealth of data material, the authors proceed far beyond the exploratory, presenting a coherent analysis of compositionality and conventionality, with important implications for diachronic and synchronic syntactic theory." --Jan-Wouter Zwart, Professor of Theoretical Linguistics, University of Groningen "...I recommend this book to all scholars interested in the comparative, synchronic, or diachronic study of particles and prefixes from a morphosyntactic point of view."
--Christina Hoppermann, University of Tubingen, LINGUIST List
"...I recommend this book to all scholars interested in the comparative, synchronic, or diachronic study of particles and prefixes from a morphosyntactic point of view." --Christina Hoppermann, University of T
This book explains how particle verbs fit into the grammatical systems of English and Dutch.
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.
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.
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