Composite predicates in English : processes of specialization /

Composite Predicates (CPs) are of particular interest to linguists in that only some of them are semantically restricted in present-day English, while others are not. This book explores the semantic-syntactic evolution of twenty-four different CPs in English from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries...

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Main Author:	Berlage, Eva (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2025].
Series:	Studies in English language.
Subjects:	English language > Verb phrase. English language > History.