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On the Productivity of Verbal Prefixation in English: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives

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One of the most far-reaching changes that has been observed for the English language was its progressive transformation from a highly inflectional, synthetic language, Old English, to a more analytic one, Present-day English, with all the consequences that this has had for many syntactic constructions. As a case in point, the postposition of the particle in particle verbs, as in the analytic construction to go out, has been interpreted as the result of a change in word order from SOV to SVO, which, in turn, is believed to have triggered a decline of the synthetic verbal prefix system, i.e. of verbs such as the now obsolete to outgo.
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Year:
2011
Publisher:
Gunter Narr Verlag; 1. Edition
Language:
English
Pages:
375
ISBN 10:
3823365878
ISBN 13:
9783823365877
ISBN:
3823365878,9783823365877
Series:
Language in Performance

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