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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.
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.
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