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One Language, Two Grammars?: Compound verbs

Peter Erdmann
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The article was published on 2009-01-01. It has received 8 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Tree-adjoining grammar & Context-sensitive grammar.

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Variation in English Worldwide: Registers and Global Varieties

TL;DR: The authors provided a comprehensive overview of variation in English across the globe, by analysing a large corpus of texts from the English speaking world, and highlighted the importance of register in mediating linguistic differences across national varieties.
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Self-prefixed verbs: Analogy in the Functional Discourse Grammar lexicon

TL;DR: This article takes an analogy-based approach to the analysis of morphological derivation in the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), giving an account of English verbs with the prefix self-.
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Chapter 4. Fact-checking on compound verbs in English

TL;DR: This paper tackled English verbal compounding with two hypotheses in mind: (i) it is crucial to differentiate between a product-and a process-oriented approach to the phenomenon, and (ii) a paradigm-based analysis acknowledging the role of analogy and the weight of metonymy proves highly beneficial.