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Morphosyntactic Change

Morphosyntactic Change

Los, Bettelou
Blom, Corrien
Booij, Geert

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Book 134

Grammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 1316604829
ISBN13: 9781316604823
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 23 2016
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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