Multi-word Verbs in Early Modern English

Multi-word Verbs in Early Modern English PDF

Author: Claudia Claridge

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9789042004597

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In a revision of her doctoral thesis (no date or institution cited), which itself grew out of the project to compile the database Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts (1640-1740), Claridge looks at the use of such multi-word verbs as get clear, wish for, and make merry as they appear in the database. She considers both syntax and semantics, which she shows merge to some extent, but takes semantics to be the primary and thus the more important level because people know how they are going to say something before they know what they are going to say. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR