Multifactorial Analysis in Corpus Linguistics: A Study of Particle Placement

This book presents a new analysis of the word—order alternation of English transitive phrasal verbs (aka Particle Movement) from a cognitive—functional and psycholinguistic perspective. Its main objective, however, is a methodological one, namely to demonstrate the superiority of corpus—based, multifactorial and probabilistic approaches towards grammatical phenomena over traditional analyses based on acceptability judgements and minimal pair tests.