Reviews Claudia Claridge. Multi-word verbs in Early Modern English: A corpus-based
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This book is a long-needed study of certain verbal collocations in English which – on the basis of semantic and syntactic similarities – Claudia Claridge groups together as 'multi-word verbs', including: phrasal verbs (burn N down [transitive], fly away [intransitive]), prepositional verbs (agree to N), phrasal prepositional verbs (look down on N [transitive], put N down to N [ditransitive]), verb-adjective combinations (make N known (to N) [transitive], hold good [intransitive]), and verbo-nominal combinations (take a walk [Group I], take account of [Group II], take into consideration, bring N to light [Group III]). Claridge's study is based on the Lampeter Corpus (see below), and for the most part presents a 'synchronic snap-shot' of multi-word verbs during the period covered by the corpus. Chapter 2 contains a brief description of the Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts, a collection of 120 non-literary prose texts (totaling 1,172,102 words) from the collection of the Founders' Library of the University of Wales, Lampeter. This corpus has been compiled by members of The REAL Centre, Technische Universität Chemnitz. 1 The period covered by the corpus – 1640–1740 – is considered to be an important period historically and linguistically , when standardization was in progress and 'prose style … seems to have undergone an extensive shift' (p 9). Claridge discusses some of the difficulties
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