31.1387, Books: The English Phrasal Verb, 1650–Present: Rodríguez-Puente

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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 21:47:10
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: The English Phrasal Verb, 1650–Present: Rodríguez-Puente

 


Title: The English Phrasal Verb, 1650–Present 
Subtitle: History, Stylistic Drifts, and Lexicalisation 
Series Title: Studies in English Language  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/grammar-and-syntax/english-phrasal-verb-1650present-history-stylistic-drifts-and-lexicalisation?format=HB 


Author: Paula Rodríguez-Puente

Hardback: ISBN:  9781107101746 Pages: 340 Price: U.S. $ 110
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107101746 Pages: 340 Price: U.K. £ 85


Abstract:

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.

Provides readers with new evidence concerning the status of phrasal verbs
based on empirical evidence over a long time span

Uses corpus evidence to provide new insights into the nature of the particles
and phrasal-combinations

Provides readers with a better understanding of the morpho-syntactic and
semantic features of phrasal verbs under three great processes of linguistic
change (grammaticalisation, lexicalisation, and idiomatisation)


1. Introduction
2. Corpus and methodology
3. Delimiting the scope of the study: what are phrasal verbs?
4. The relationship between phrasal verbs and the processes of
grammaticalisation, lexicalisation, and idiomatisation
5. Phrasal verbs 1650–1990: Linguistic aspects
6. Phrasal verbs 1650–1990: cross-genre distribution
7. Conclusion.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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