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]
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Online Access:Volltext
Item 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 (316 p.)
ISBN:9783110257038
3110257033

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