The Lexical Syntax and Lexical Semantics of the Verb-Particle Construction
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چکیده
Whether despite the amount of ink spilled over the verb-particle construction or because of it, there is still a dramatic lack of consensus regarding its syntactic structure. The construction is intriguing because the verb and particle function autonomously in some respects (for example, both (1) and (2) allow the verb-particle combination to be separated, as in (1b) and (2b)), but in other respects have the linguistic properties of a single predicational domain (for example, (2) has an idiomatic meaning not predictable on the basis of its parts).
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