Isbn: 9781316604823 - morphosyntactic change: a comparative study of particles and prefixes (cambridge studies in linguistics, 134, band 134) (4 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. This book explains how particle verbs fit into the grammatical systems of English and Dutch. Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics. Num Pages: 266 pages, 11 tables. BIC Classification: CFF; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396. . 2016. Reprint. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.…