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English has a very productive construction in which a verb is combined with a particle. (1) a. The cleaner knocked (down) the vase (down). b. The police locked (up) the criminal (up). c. The Formula 1 race-driver wrote (off) his car (off). (write off = damage beyond repair) The challenge of ana
Het Engels kent net als een aantal andere West-Germaanse talen (Nederlands, Duits) een systeem van samengestelde werkwoorden, waarbij een werkwoord een combinatie vormt met een partikel, (1). (1) Engels: beat up, switch off, cancel out, break down Nederlands: afsluiten, uitmaken, opblazen, overb
In the transition from Old to Middle English, particle-verb combinations were rapidly transformed into verb-particle combinations, in which particles are invariably postverbal (Hiltunen 1983). Data from the early Middle English period show that particles immediately following the verb, (1a), far out
A key issue in analysing the present-day English verb-particle combination is its syntactic properties on the one hand and its morphological makeup on the other. The particle's syntactic independence exemplified in the word order alternation conflicts with the word formation properties of the constr
In the transition from Old to Middle English, particle-verb combinations were rapidly transformed into verb-particle combinations, in which particles are invariably postverbal (Hiltunen 1983). (1) a. & lahte ut his tunge se long þæt he swong hire a-buten his swire. (St.Margaret, 69) 'and took ou
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