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One of the most far-reaching changes that has been observed for the English language was its progressive transformation from a highly inflectional, synthetic language, Old English, to a more analytic one, Present-day English, with all the consequences that this has had for many syntactic constructions. As a case in point, the postposition of the particle in particle verbs, as in the analytic construction to go out, has been interpreted as the result of a change in word order from SOV to SVO, which, in turn, is believed to have triggered a decline of the synthetic verbal prefix system, i.e. of verbs such as the now obsolete to outgo.

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• Full title: On the Productivity of Verbal Prefixation in English
• Subtitle: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives
• Author: Anne Schröder
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250
• EAN: 9783823365877
• ISBN: 3823365878
• ID: 01756007
• Publisher: Narr
• Weight: 560 g
• Dimensions: 220 × 150 × 32 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. September 2011

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