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

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Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth
Published
Tübingen : Niemeyer, 1979.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 207 pages) : illustrations
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Language Note
English.
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 and 4 The PPP and linguistic theoryAppendix: Corpus correlation between surface preposition and semantic function; A Lexicon of Prepositional Verbs; References
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The prepositional passive in English a semantic-syntactic analysis, with a lexicon of prepositional verbs.
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ISBN
9783111630724 (electronic bk.)
3111630722 (electronic bk.)
3484103639
9783484103634
Note
Revision of the author's thesis, University of Freiburg im Breisgau, 1977.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-207).
Includes bibliographical references.
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