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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.
This book is a guide to the development of English syntax between the Old and Modern periods. Beginning with an overview of the main features of early English syntax, it gives a unified account of the significant grammatical changes that occurred during this period. Four leading experts demonstrate how these changes can be explained in terms of grammatical theory and the theory of language acquisition. Drawing on a wealth of empirical data, the book covers a wide range of topics including changes in word order, infinitival constructions and grammaticalization processes.
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.
This book is a guide to the development of English syntax between the Old and Modern periods. Beginning with an overview of the main features of early English syntax, it gives a unified account of the significant grammatical changes that occurred during this period. Four leading experts demonstrate how these changes can be explained in terms of grammatical theory and the theory of language acquisition. Drawing on a wealth of empirical data, the book covers a wide range of topics including changes in word order, infinitival constructions and grammaticalization processes.
The relationship between changes in (inflectional) morphology and the consequences of these changes in syntax has been a perennial issue in historical linguistics. The contributors to this volume address the issue of how to model the phenomena of syntactic and morphological change within recent frameworks, including the Minimalist Programme. Topics addressed include the way categories like aspect and mood interact over time with the valency of verbs; the nature of changes in verb placement; the changing division of labor between different types of argument marking--case, word order, clitics, agreement. The volume contains chapters by many of the leading scholars in the field. There is a substantial introduction which reviews the development of ideas in generative historical syntax over the last fifteen years, and assesses the distinctive properties of the generative position. The volume will appeal to those working in theoretical syntax, and also to specialists in the history of German, French and the Romance and Germanic languages more broadly.
The relationship between changes in (inflectional) morphology and
the consequences of these changes in syntax has been a perennial
issue in historical linguistics. The contributors to this volume
address the issue of how to model the phenomena of syntactic and
morphological change within recent frameworks, in particular the
minimalist programme. A special concern is the way different
criteria for the selection of argument structure especially aspect
and mood, interact over time with various types of argument marking
case, word order, clitics, agreement. The volume contains papers by
many of the leading scholars in the field. There is an introduction
which reviews the development of ideas in generative historical
syntax since the early 1980s and assesses the distinctive
properties of the generative position.
"The Handbook of the History of English" is a collection of
articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on
the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English
language.
organizes the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing
English language innovatively and applies recent insights to old
problems
surveys the history of English from the perspective of structural
developments in areas such as phonology, prosody, morphology,
syntax, semantics, language variation, and dialectology
offers readers a comprehensive overview of the various theoretical
perspectives available to the study of the history of English and
sets new objectives for further research
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