Particle verbs in English : syntax, information structure, and intonation /
This book offers a new account of the transitive particle verb construction in English. The main emphasis is on the alternation between the two word orders possible in English (continuous: hand in the manuscript vs. discontinuous: hand the manuscript in). The central aim is to show that the choice o...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub.,
©2002.
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| Series: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 59. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | This book offers a new account of the transitive particle verb construction in English. The main emphasis is on the alternation between the two word orders possible in English (continuous: hand in the manuscript vs. discontinuous: hand the manuscript in). The central aim is to show that the choice of the word order is not optional as has often been claimed in related literature on the topic and that a syntactic analysis should thus not be based on optional movement operations or optional feature selection. The author argues in some detail that the choice of the word order is determined to a gr. |
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| Item Description: | Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Leipzig, 2001. EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 302 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-295) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027296283 9027296286 9781588113085 1588113086 9789027227805 9027227802 1282161059 9781282161054 |
| ISSN: | 0166-0829 ; |
