Composite Predicates in English: Processes of Specialization - Couverture rigide

Berlage, Eva

 
9781107155640: Composite Predicates in English: Processes of Specialization
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1107155649 ISBN 13 : 9781107155640
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

Composite Predicates (CPs) are of particular interest to linguists in that only some of them are semantically restricted in present-day English, while others are not. This book explores the semantic-syntactic evolution of twenty-four different CPs in English from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries, showing why some specialize over time while others do not. It highlights that the semantic scope and evolution of the morphologically and semantically related simple verb acts as a powerful predictor of whether or not a CP becomes semantically restricted in the course of time. In all those cases where CPs undergo specialization, semantic changes take place earlier than syntactic ones. Finally, large-scale corpus-analyses reveal that the CPs, which, in comparison to their morphologically simple verbs, can be considered analytic constructions, decrease from the nineteenth to twentieth century or show consistently low frequencies. This finding runs counter to the trend of English to become increasingly analytic.

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À propos de l?auteur

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

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1107155649
ISBN 13 
9781107155640
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
235
Coordonnées du fabricant
Cambridge University Press
https://www.cambridge.org/

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