Morphosyntactic Change by Bettelou Los

Morphosyntactic Change by Bettelou Los

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.

'Offering a wealth of data material, the authors proceed far beyond the exploratory, presenting a coherent analysis of compositionality and conventionality, with important implications for diachronic and synchronic syntactic theory' Jan-Wouter Zwart, University of Groningen
'I recommend this book to all scholars interested in the comparative, synchronic, or diachronic study of particles and prefixes from a morphosyntactic point of view.' Christina Hoppermann, The Linguist List (linguistlist.org)

Bettelou Los is a senior lecturer in English linguistics at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Corrien Blom is a consultant at the Bureau Taal, Beusichem, The Netherlands. Geert Booij is a professor of linguistics at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands. Marion Elenbaas is a reader in English linguistics at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands. Ans van Kemenade is a professor of English linguistics at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

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ISBN 13	9781107012639
ISBN 10	1107012635
Title	Morphosyntactic Change
Author	Bettelou Los
Series	Cambridge Studies In Linguistics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2012-05-03
Number of pages	266
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