The English Phrasal Verb, 1650–Present
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The English Phrasal Verb, 1650–Present

History, Stylistic Drifts, and Lexicalisation

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The English Phrasal Verb, 1650–Present

History, Stylistic Drifts, and Lexicalisation

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Providing a detailed and comprehensive account of the development of phrasal verbs from early modern to present-day English, this study covers almost 400 years in the history of English, and provides both a diachronic and synchronic account based on over 12, 000 examples extracted from stratified electronic corpora. The corpus analysis provides evidence of how registers can inform us about the history of English, as it traces and compares the usage and stylistic drifts of phrasal verbs across ten different genres - drama, fiction, journals, diaries, letters, medicine, news, science, sermons, and trial proceedings. The study also sheds new light on the morpho-syntactic and semantic features of phrasal verbs, proposing a new approach to the category, considering not only on their grammatical features, but also their historical development, by discussing the category in terms of a number of central mechanisms of language change.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9781108757522
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series information
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright information
  6. Table of contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Tables
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. List of Abbreviations
  11. Chapter 1 Introduction
  12. Chapter 2 Corpus and Methodology
  13. Chapter 3 Delimiting the Scope of the Study What Are Phrasal Verbs?
  14. Chapter 4 The Relationship between Phrasal Verbs and the Processes of Grammaticalisation...
  15. Chapter 5 Phrasal Verbs 1650–199o Linguistic Aspects
  16. Chapter 6 Phrasal Verbs 1650–1990 Cross-Genre Distribution
  17. Chapter 7 Conclusion
  18. Appendix I: List of Phrasal Verb Constructions with a Fixed Syntactic Order
  19. Appendix II: Raw and Normalised Frequencies of Phrasal Verb Particles in ARCHER and the OBC
  20. Appendix III: List of the Twenty Most Common Combinations Distributed across Genres
  21. Appendix IV: Raw Frequencies of Particles Distributed across Genres
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index