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Author Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth.

Title The prepositional passive in English : a semantic-syntactic analysis, with a lexicon of prepositional verbs / Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen.

Publication Info. Tübingen : Niemeyer, 1979.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 207 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Linguistische Arbeiten, 0344-6727 ; 81
Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) ; 81.
Note Revision of the author's thesis, University of Freiburg im Breisgau, 1977.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-207).
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Foreword; I Approaches to the PPP -- Past and Present; 1 Traditional definition; 2 Survey of past treatment; 3 Present analysis; II The Semantics of Subject; 1 Procedure; 2 Subject notions; 3 Subject notion and object eligibility; III The Semantics of Object; 1 Procedure; 2 Object notions; 3 Object notion and subject eligibility; IV PPP Acceptability; 1 Semantic-syntactic configuration; 2 Lexical choice; 3 Contextualization; 4 Acceptability in practice; V Grammar and Theory of the PPP; 1 Towards a grammar of the PPP; 2 The PPP and the passive proper; 3 The PPP and the active
4 The PPP and linguistic theoryAppendix: Corpus correlation between surface preposition and semantic function; A Lexicon of Prepositional Verbs; References
Summary The prepositional passive in English a semantic-syntactic analysis, with a lexicon of prepositional verbs.
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Language English.
Subject English language -- Verb phrase.
English language -- Verb phrase.
English language -- Voice.
English language -- Voice.
English language -- Prepositions.
English language -- Prepositions.
English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers.
English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
ISBN 9783111630724 (electronic book)
3111630722 (electronic book)
3484103639
9783484103634