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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462493903321

Autore

Couper-Kuhlen Elizabeth

Titolo

The prepositional passive in English [[electronic resource] ] : a semantic-syntactic analysis, with a lexicon of prepositional verbs / / Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tùˆbingen, : Niemeyer, 1979

ISBN

3-11-163072-2

Edizione

[Reprint 2011]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Collana

Linguistische Arbeiten, , 0344-6727 ; ; 81

Disciplina

425

Soggetti

English language - Verb phrase

English language - Voice

English language - Prepositions

English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Revised version of the author's thesis, University of Freiburg im Breisgau, 1977.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. 204-207.

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

The prepositional passive in English  a semantic-syntactic analysis, with a lexicon of prepositional verbs