English Verb-particle Constructions: Two Types, Two Structures

This paper proposes that resultative verb-particle constructions (VPCs) have an underlyingly different structure from idiomatic VPCs; both structures differ from the Small Clause analysis of Kayne (1985) et al and the verb-particle complex analysis of Johnson (1991). Empirical support for the new pr...

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Main Author: Zoerner, Ed
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics 1996-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/460

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