This work represents a cross-section of modern research on verb-particle constructions. The syntactic, semantic, morphological and psycholinguistic phenomena associated with the constructions in English, Dutch, German and Swedish are analyzed from the various different theoretic…
This new updated third edition confirms Professor Leech's pre-eminence in the field. The book is still the clearest and most authoritative statement of meaning in the verb phrase, and the revised extended treatment of modality and mood constitutes a new standard for English lang…