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The prepositional passive in English : a semantic-syntactic analysis, with a lexicon of prepositional verbs / Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth.
- Series:
- Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) ; 81.
- Linguistische Arbeiten, 0344-6727 ; 81
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Verb phrase.
- English language.
- English language--Voice.
- English language--Prepositions.
- English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 207 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- Reprint 2011
- Place of Publication:
- Tübingen : Niemeyer, 1979.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The prepositional passive in English a semantic-syntactic analysis, with a lexicon of prepositional verbs
- Contents:
- Front matter
- I Approaches to the PPP - Past and Present
- II The Semantics of Subject
- III The Semantics of Object
- IV PPP Acceptability
- V Grammar and Theory of the PPP
- Appendix: Corpus correlation between surface preposition and semantic function
- A Lexicon of Prepositional Verbs
- References
- Notes:
- Revised version of the author's thesis, University of Freiburg im Breisgau, 1977.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-207).
- ISBN:
- 9783111630724
- 3111630722
- OCLC:
- 843635109
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