Morphosyntactic Change : A Comparative Study of Particles and Prefixes

Name: Morphosyntactic Change
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107012639
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ISBN: 9781107012639

by Ans van Kemenade , Bettelou Los , Corrien Blom , Geert Booij , Marion Elenbaas

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Format Hardback

Book Series Cambridge Studies in Linguistics

ISBN-10 1107012635

ISBN-13 9781107012639

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 3rd, 2012

Print length 266 Pages

Weight 572 grams

Dimensions 23.30 x 15.20 x 1.80 cms

Product Classification: Grammar, syntax & morphology Grammar, syntax and morphology

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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. 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.

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