Phrasal Verbs : : The English Verb-Particle Construction and its History / / Stefan Thim.
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 Eng...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ,
78 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (302 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents. List of figures. List of tables
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Present-day English and other Germanic languages
- Chapter 3. The development of postposed particles
- Chapter 4. Writing the history of the phrasal verb
- Chapter 5. Word formation, sound change and semantics
- Chapter 6. Frequency, style and attitudes
- Chapter 7. Conclusion
- References
- Index