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The Prepositional Passive in English: A semantic-syntactic analysis, with a lexicon of prepositional verbs

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Author(s): Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
Series: Linguistische Arbeiten 81
Publisher: Max Niemeyer
Year: 1979

Language: English
Pages: 220
City: Tübingen

Foreword......Page 11
1 Traditional definition......Page 13
2 Survey of past treatment......Page 17
3 Present analysis......Page 31
1 Procedure......Page 36
2 Subject notions......Page 38
3 Subject notion and object eligibility......Page 51
1 Procedure......Page 55
2 Object notions......Page 56
3 Object notion and subject eligibility......Page 96
1 Semantic-syntactic configuration......Page 102
2 Lexical choice......Page 109
3 Contextualization......Page 117
4 Acceptability in practice......Page 126
1 Towards a grammar of the PPP......Page 128
2 The PPP and the passive proper......Page 130
3 The PPP and the active......Page 131
4 The PPP and linguistic theory......Page 135
Appendix: Corpus correlation between surface preposition and semantic function......Page 138
A Lexicon of Prepositional Verbs......Page 141
References......Page 216