Phrasal Verbs: The English Verb-Particle Construction and Its History

(Book #78 in the Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] Series)

by Stefan Thim

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The book traces the evolution of the English verb-particle construction ('phrasal verb') from Indo-European and Germanic up to the present. A contrastive survey of the basic semantic and syntactic characteristics of verb-particle constructions in the present-day Germanic languages shows that the English construction is structurally unremarkable and its analysis as a periphrastic word-formation is proposed.

From a cross-linguistic and comparative...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:3110257025

ISBN13:9783110257021

Release Date:October 2012

Publisher:de Gruyter Mouton

Length:316 Pages

Weight:1.37 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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Foreign Language Foreign Language Learning Foreign Language Study Foreign Language Study & Reference Foreign Languages Language Arts

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Phrasal Verbs: The English Verb-Particle Construction and Its History

(Book #78 in the Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] Series)

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