Phrasal verbs : the English verb-particle construction and its history / by Stefan Thim.

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 app...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Thim, Stefan (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2012]
Series:	Topics in English linguistics ; 78.
Subjects:	English language > Verb phrase. Grammar, Comparative and general > Verb phrase.