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Phrasal Verbs The English Verb-Particle Construction and its History

:	Stefan Thim
:	Phrasal Verbs The English Verb-Particle Construction and its History
:	De Gruyter Mouton
:	9783110257038
:	Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]ISSN
:	1
:	CHF 159.40
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:	Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft
:	English

:	316
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< >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 the
construction to follow a widely attested path and argues that the apparent
peculiarities of phrasal verbs in Modern English are epiphenomenal to other
structural characteristics of the language.

< >Stefan Thim, Friedrich-Alexander-Universit t Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

	Acknowledgments	5
	List of figures	10
	List of tables	11
	Abbreviations	12
	1. Introduction	15
	1.1. Aims	15
	1.2. The term phrasal verb	16
	1.3. Contrast, comparison, history	17
	1.4. Structure of this study	22
	2. Present-day English and other Germanic languages	24
	2.1. Phrasal verbs: some examples	24
	2.2. Semantic characteristics	25
	2.2.1. Three semantic types	27
	2.2.2. Compositional constructions	28
	2.2.3. Aspectual constructions	30
	2.2.4. Idiomatic constructions	33
	2.3. Syntactic characteristics	34
	2.3.1. Transitivity and serialization	35
	2.3.2. Particles and prepositions	40
	2.3.3. Phrasal-prepositional verbs	42
	2.4. Further observations	44
	2.4.1. Cranberry verbs	44
	2.4.2. Nominalisations	44
	2.4.3. Other word formations	48
	2.4.4. Prefix verbs and phrasal verbs	48
	2.4.5. ‘Group-verbs’ etc.	50
	2.4.6. Replaceability by a simple verb	54
	2.4.7. Variation and style	56
	2.5. Verb-particle constructions in other present-day Germanic languages	59
	2.5.1. Basic word order	61
	2.5.2. Particle position	62
	2.6. Phrasal verbs as periphrastic word formations	69
	2.6.1. Verbs plus particles?	70
	2.6.2. Periphrastic word formation	76
	2.6.3. Further pros and cons	81
	2.6.4. Phrasal verbs as constructions	83
	2.7. Conclusion	86
	3. The development of postposed particles	88
	3.1. Preverbs	89
	3.1.1. Preverbs in non-Indo-European languages	92
	3.1.2. Preverbs in Indo-European	95
	3.2. The development of English word order	103
	3.2.1. Word order in earlier Germanic	103
	3.2.2. Word order in Old English	107
	3.2.3. The rise of Modern English word order	114
	3.3. The position of the particle in medieval English	117
	3.4. Conclusion	129
	4. Writing the history of the phrasal verb	131
	4.1. A classic study: Kennedy (1920)	131
	4.1.1. The ‘rise’ of the phrasal verb	132
	4.1.2. Colloquiality, informality, nativeness	134
	4.1.3. The impact of Kennedy's study	137
	4.2. Some textbooks and language histories	138
	4.2.1. The pitfalls of history	138
	4.2.2. Coverage in CHEL I and II	140
	4.3. Lexicographic coverage: a characteristic example	145
	4.3.1. Bosworth-Toller and other older dictionaries	146
	4.3.2. The Middle English Dictionary	149
	4.3.3. The Oxford English Dictionary	152
	4.3.4. The Dictionary of Old English	154
	4.3.5. Concluding remarks on the historical dictionaries	157
	4.4. Conclusion	157
	5. Word formation, sound change and semantics	159
	5.1. Changing prefix inventories in English	159
	5.1.1. The Old English prefixes	160
	5.1.2. The prefixes in Middle English and beyond	167
	5.2. Preverbs and particles in medieval English	172
	5.2.1. On sound change and word formation	172
	5.2.2. Some comparative evidence	179
	5.2.3. Prefix variation in Old English	185
	5.2.4. Particle semantics in medieval English	190
	5.2.5. Some conclusions	197
	5.3. An outlook to modern English	199
	5.3.1. Etymology and integration	199
	5.3.2. Phrasal verbs in 15th- and 16th-century English	206
	5.4. Conclusion	209
	6. Frequency, style and attitudes	211
	6.1. Counting phrasal verbs	211
	6.1.1. Quantitative long-term developments from Middle English to the 20th century	211
	6.1.2. Early Modern English frequencies	219
	6.1.3. Relative frequencies of particles	224
	6.1.4. Quantitative long-term developments	225
	6.2. Style and attitudes	228
	6.2.1. Text type and frequency	229
	6.2.2. Pre-1800 evidence for colloquiality?	232
	6.2.3. An example: Samuel Johnson	235
	6.2.4. James Cook rewritten and John Dryden revised	240
	6.3. The colloquialization conspiracy: a first suggestion	247
	6.4. Conclusion	259
	7. Conclusion	261
	7.1. Summary	261
	7.2. Outlook	266
	References	269
	Index	307