The phrasal verb plays an important role in the attainment of English proficiency. However, it has been recognised as problematic for learners worldwide various reasons, with result that tend to employ avoidance strategies when confronted verb. Use (PV) not researched any great extent South African environment, a limitation this study seeks address. Using corpus undergraduate writing, PV use by...

With this paper, I introduce new evidence in support of the notion of syntactic decomposition of eventive verbs into two separate phrasal projections, one projected (in some sense) by the event itself, and one by the resultant state. The decomposition is essentially that which was argued for in much work in the Generative Semantics tradition, along the lines laid out in, e.g. McCawley (1968), o...

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