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Morphosyntactic Change: A Comparative Study of Particles and Prefixes

By Dr Bettelou Los , Dr Corrien Blom , Professor Geert Booij , Dr Marion Elenbaas , Professor Ans van Kemenade

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
1107012635, 9781107012639
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1054422 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
Edition
1
Pages
266\268
Scanned
yes
Time added
2017-02-21 22:19:50
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Description

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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