Phrasal constructions and resultativeness in English
Marina Gorlach · 2004
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Eat up the apple or Eat the apple up? Is there any difference in the messages each of these alternative forms sends? If there isn't, why bother to keep both? On the other hand, is there any semantic similarity between eat the apple up and break the glass to pieces? This study takes a fresh look at a still controversial issue of phrasal verbs and their alternate word order applying sign-oriented theory and methodology. Unlike other analyses, it asserts that there is a semantic distinction between the two word order variants phrasal verbs may appear in. In order to test this distinction, the aut.
Book details
- Year
- 2004
- Language
- English
- Series
- Studies in functional and structural linguistics -- v. 52
- Publisher
- John Benjamins
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 150
- ISBN
- 9789027294852
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