36.1606, Books: Composite Predicates in English: Berlage (2025)

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Date: 20-May-2025
From: Ellena Moriarty [rfsupport at cambridge.org]
Subject: Composite Predicates in English: Berlage (2025)


Title: Composite Predicates in English
Subtitle: Processes of Specialization
Series Title: Studies in English Language
Publication Year: 20250515

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/languages-linguistics/grammar-and-syntax/composite-predicates-english-processes-specialization?format=HB

Author(s): Eva Berlage

Hardback ISBN:  9781107155640 Pages:  235 Price: U.K. £ 100.00
Hardback ISBN:  9781107155640 Pages:  235 Price: Europe EURO 116.71
Hardback ISBN:  9781107155640 Pages:  235 Price: U.S. $ 130.00

Abstract:

Composite Predicates (CPs) are of particular interest to linguists in
that only some of them are semantically restricted in present-day
English, while others are not. This book explores the
semantic-syntactic evolution of twenty-four different CPs in English
from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries, showing why some specialize
over time while others do not. It highlights that the semantic scope
and evolution of the morphologically and semantically related simple
verb acts as a powerful predictor of whether or not a CP becomes
semantically restricted in the course of time. In all those cases
where CPs undergo specialization, semantic changes take place earlier
than syntactic ones. Finally, large-scale corpus-analyses reveal that
the CPs, which, in comparison to their morphologically simple verbs,
can be considered analytic constructions, decrease from the nineteenth
to twentieth century or show consistently low frequencies. This
finding runs counter to the trend of English to become increasingly
analytic.

Written In: English (eng)



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