tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719279.post1329763641463169584..comments2023-10-25T10:16:23.924-04:00Comments on Invented Usage: usable up?Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18299970053622180647noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719279.post-63150276101084639592007-05-14T21:29:00.000-04:002007-05-14T21:29:00.000-04:00you might consider the case of bounty's the quilte...you might consider the case of bounty's the quilted, quicker "picker-upper". I do some work on verbal compounds in Hindi and have been idly wondering whether phrasal verbs such as "pick up" can be analyzed as verbal compounds (two concatenated verbal heads) rather than a verb + particle. <BR/><BR/>Suppose it's a question of morphosyntactic construction: The derivational suffix -er should only beAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14792205574211584664noreply@blogger.com