Providing a detailed and comprehensive account of the development of phrasal verbs from early modern to present-day English, this study covers almost 400 years

This volume provides a concise overview of the diachronic development of composite predicates (CPs) in Late Modern English, offering clearer evidence of ongoing

This textbook intends to do a clear, informal review of the history of the English language. Although the main focus is not to provide a thorough social descrip

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Taking a multi-theoretical approach, this book offers the first in-depth study of the function and development of evaluative of-binomials.