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Title Collocational and idiomatic aspects of composite predicates in the history of English / edited by Laurel J. Brinton, Minoji Akimoto
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 283 pages)
Series Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 47
Studies in language companion series ; v. 47. 0165-7763
Contents COLLOCATIONAL AND IDIOMATIC ASPECTS OF COMPOSITE PREDICATES IN THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; CHAPTER 1. Introduction; CHAPTER 2. The Origin of the Composite Predicate in Old English; CHAPTER 3. Composite Predicates in Middle English; CHAPTER 4. Composite Predicates and Phrasal Verbs in The Paston Letters; CHAPTER 5. Verbal Phrases and Phrasal Verbs in Early Modern English; CHAPTER 6. Collocational and Idiomatic Aspects of Verbs in Early Modern English: A corpus-based study of MAKE, HAVE, GIVE, TA
Summary The focus of this carefully selected volume concerns the existence, frequency, and form of composite/complex predicates (the "take a look" construction) in earlier periods of the English language, an area of scholarship which has been virtually neglected. The various contributions seek to understand the collocational and idiomatic aspects of these structures, as well as of related structures such as complex prepositions (e.g., "on account of") and phrasal verbs (e.g., "look up"), in their earliest manifestations. Moreover, study of these constructions at the individual stages of English leads
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-274) and indexes
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Subject English language -- Syntax.
English language -- Grammar, Generative.
English language -- Grammar, Historical.
English language -- Verb phrase.
English language -- Grammar, Generative
English language -- Grammar, Historical
English language -- Syntax
English language -- Verb phrase
Verbale constituenten.
Engels.
Prädikat
Phraseologie
Kompositum
LÍNGUA INGLESA (HISTÓRIA)
SINTAXE.
Englisch.
Form Electronic book
Author Brinton, Laurel J
Akimoto, Minoji, 1941-
ISBN 1556199333
9781556199332
9027230501
9789027230508
9789027298751
9027298750