A Comparative Study of Particles and Prefixes
by
Bettelou Los, Corrien Blom, Geert Booij
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Particle verbs (combinations of two words but lexical units) are a notorious problem in linguistics. Is a particle verb like look up one word or two? It has its own entry in dictionaries, as if it is one word, but look and up can be split up in a sentence: we can say He looked the information up and...