Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-55f67697df-gmt7q Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-05-10T17:57:41.598Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Chapter 7 - The semantic evolution of Type II-CPs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 May 2025

Eva Berlage
Affiliation:
Universität Hamburg
Get access

Summary

In this chapter, I discuss the semantic evolution of Type II-CPs. As in Section 6.1, I first explore whether CPs that have morphologically and semantically related simple verbs pattern differently from those that have only morphologically related simple verbs (Section 7.1). In a next step, I turn to an in-depth analysis of those CPs containing the light verbs take (Section 7.1.1) and make (Section 7.1.2), respectively. Other factors that may impinge on the evolution of the CPs are the frequencies of the light verbs (discussed in Section 7.2) and the frequencies of the head nouns outside the CPs (being the topic of Section 7.3). The chapter is rounded off by a synthesis, which gives the most important findings and looks at the prediction strength that can be assigned to the simple verbs.

Type
Chapter
Information
Composite Predicates in English
Processes of Specialization
, pp. 125 - 157
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Book purchase

Temporarily unavailable

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×