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Phrasal Verbs: The English Verb-Particle Construction and its History: 78
Author(s): Thim (Author)
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication Date: 15 Oct. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 318 pages
- ISBN-10: 3110257025
- ISBN-13: 9783110257021
Book 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.
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About the Author
Stefan Thim, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
