EAN: 9783039116751

FROM SIMPLE VERBS TO PERIPHRASTIC EXPRESSIONS ...

English offers verbal expressions in two basic forms: simple verbs such as walk and look  and
periphrastic expressions such as have take a walk and have take a look. Which do we use  why 
and how do particular usages arise or disappear? This volume explores the historical
development of two important periphrastic verbal constructions  composite predicates and
phrasal verbs  as well as related expressions  from the viewpoint of English historical
linguistics. The approach is descriptive and interpretive  encompassing rich and varied data
from Old English  Middle English  Early Modern English  Late Modern English  and Present Day
English  from sources such as the Chadwyck-Healey electronic corpus databases. The history of
English is characterized by the development from synthetic to analytic. The role of this
tendency in the development of verbal expressions is of particular interest.

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