Lost of figures List of tables Preface List of abbreviations 1 Introduction 1.1 The scope of the study 1.2 the diachronic development of phrasal verbs 1.3 Theoretical assumptions 1.4 Outline of the study 2 Review of literature 2.1 Phonological variables 2.2 Morphosyntactic variables 2.3 Sematic variables 2.4 Discoure-functional varialbes 2.5 Other varialbes 2.6 Interim summary and critical evaluation 3 Objectives of this study 4 Dey notions and hypotheses 4.1 Discouse-functional variables 4.2 Semantic variables 4.3 Morphosyntactic variables 4.4 Phonological variables 4.5 Remaining variabls 4.6 Interim summary 5 The data 5.1 Origin of the corpus data 5.2 Treatment of the corpus data 6 Results and Discussion 6.1 Monofactorial results 6.2 Pair-wise comparisons:the relative strengths of variables 6.3 Multifactorial results 6.4 Further evaluation 7 General Discussion 7.1 Prototypes 7.2 Variability and grammar 7.3 Competing approaches to syntactic variation 8 The activation of constructions 8.1 theoretical introduction 8.2 The relation of variables to activation 8.3 A network of varialbes and weighted relations 8.4 Interim summary 9 conclusion and outlook 10 Appeddices 11 References
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