Eva Berlage (Universitat Hamburg)

Composite Predicates in English

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the semantic-syntactic development of composite predicates (CPs) in English from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries. Large-scale corpus data reveal that the morphologically and semantically related simple verb (e.g. notice in the case of take notice of) works as a powerful predictor of the CP's semantic evolution.

Produktdetails

• Studies in English Language
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9781107155640
• ISBN-10: 1107155649
• Artikelnr.: 73232141

Autorenporträt

Eva Berlage is Junior Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Her notable publications include Noun Phrase Complexity in English (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations and symbols
1. Introduction
2. The evolution of CPs: theories, concepts and their relevance
3. The CPs under investigation, the simple verbs and the hypotheses
4. Methodology
5. The evolution of the simple verbs
6. The semantic evolution of type-I-CPs
7. The semantic evolution of type-II-CPs
8. Syntactic changes and a comparison of semantic and syntactic changes
9. Theoretical discussion
10. Conclusion and outlook.