Phrasal Verbs: The English Verb-Particle Construction and Its History

by 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 English construction is structurally unremarkable and its analysis as a periphrastic word-formation is proposed.

From a cross-linguistic and comparative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110257025
• ISBN13: 9783110257021
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"