Composite Predicates in English. Processes of Specialization, Hardback

This book explores the semantic-syntactic development of composite predicates (CPs) in English from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries. Large-scale corpus data reveal that the morphologically and semantically related simple verb (e.g. notice in the case of take notice of) works as a powerful predictor of the CP's semantic evolution.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Author(s): Eva (Universitat Hamburg) Berlage
• Number of pages: 235
• Collection: Studies in English Language
• Publication date: 2025
• Dimensions: 160 x 237 x 20
• Cover type: Hardback