Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 March 2004
It has been hypothesized that separable complex verbs (SCVs, for example, ópzoeken ‘look up’) and inseparable complex verbs (ICVs, for example, doorzóeken ‘search’) form part of the same historical development, SCVs representing a stage intermediate to constructions with syntactic resultatives and ICVs. This paper shows that such a hypothesis is untenable, since many SCV preverbs and ICV preverbs are nonpredicative and thus semantically different from resultatives. Instead, it is claimed that predicative preverbs and nonpredicative preverbs result from two independent historical developments. In addition, the particular semantic and structural properties of SCVs are assumed to suggest a specific SCV structure, to be positioned in between syntactic phrases and morphologically complex words.I would like to thank Geert Booij, Hana Filip, Beth Levin, Andrew McIntyre, Ariane van Santen, and two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments on earlier versions of this paper. Of course, any remaining errors are entirely my own.
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