This book explains how particle verbs fit into the grammatical systems of English and Dutch.
Bettelou Los is a senior lecturer in English linguistics at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
1. Separable complex verbs; 2. The paradox of particle verbs; 3. The synchronic analysis of Dutch SCVs; 4. The diachronic analysis of Dutch SCVs; 5. The lexical decomposition of present-day English verb-particle combinations; 6. The diachrony of the English verb-particle combination; 7. The diachrony of prefixes in West Germanic; 8. Conclusions.