De Gruyter Mouton Phrasal Verbs: The English Verb-Particle Construction and its History: 78 (Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL], 78)

Product Description 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 theconstruction to follow a widely attested path and argues that the apparentpeculiarities of phrasal verbs in Modern English are epiphenomenal to otherstructural characteristics of the language. About the Author Stefan Thim, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.