Verb-particle Combination in Old English
Author : Grant William Smith
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 16,27 MB
Release : 1966
Category : English language
ISBN :
Author : Grant William Smith
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 16,27 MB
Release : 1966
Category : English language
ISBN :
Author : Bruce Fraser
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 14,86 MB
Release : 1972
Category : English language
ISBN :
Author : Bettelou Los
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 12,42 MB
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : 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.
Author : Marion Elenbaas
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,15 MB
Release : 2007
Category : English language
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Author : Nicole Dehé
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,35 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : 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.
Author : Arthur Garfield Kennedy
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 33,90 MB
Release : 1920
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Author : Michiko Ogura
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110823640
The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.
Author : Douglas J. Absalom
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 22,27 MB
Release : 1969
Category : English language
ISBN :
Author : Arthur Garfield Kennedy
Publisher : [Stanford, Calif.] : Stanford University
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 31,43 MB
Release : 1920
Category : English language
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Author : Michiko Ogura
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 22,54 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780859917681
The investigation of the medieval uses of verbs of motion remains important for a view of the syntactic development of the English language; this present study covers most of the functional features found in medieval English contexts. Verbs of motion are ordinary words, for which cognates can be found among Germanic languages, but the choice of words as renderings of the Latin verbs can be different. These linguistic developments are clarified in chapters on: The Rivalry among Synonyms, The Reflexive Construction, "Impersonal" Uses of Verbs of Motion, Verbs with Preposed or Postposed Elements, Verbs of Motion as Auxiliaries, Present and Past Participles of Verbs of Motion, and Loan Verbs of Motion. MICHIKO OGURA is Professor of English at Chiba University, Japan.