Phrasal Verbs: The English Verb-Particle Construction and its History
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Main Author: Thim, Stefan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin De Gruyter 2012
Series:Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] 78
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Item Description:Biographical note: Stefan Thim, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Main description: This book explores the English verb-particle construction from a historical and cross-linguistic perspective. Challenging established views and tracing their origins in the normative tradition, the author shows the evolution of theconstruction to follow a widely attested path and argues that the apparentpeculiarities of phrasal verbs in Modern English are epiphenomenal to otherstructural characteristics of the language
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 302 S.)
ISBN:9783110257038
9783112203729

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