We address the problem of identifying multiword expressions in a language, focusing on English phrasal verbs. Our polyglot ranking approach integrates frequency statistics from translated corpora in 50 different languages. Our experimental evaluation demonstrates that combining statistical evidence from many parallel corpora using a novel ranking-oriented boosting algorithm produces a comprehen...

This paper demonstrates how to measure the compositionality of phrasal verbs using corpus frequencies from the BNC. This allows us to distinguish semantically transparent phrasal verbs (they lifted up their hats) from opaque ones (they summed up their feelings). Working by analogy to paradigmatic approaches to morphology (Moscoso del Prado Martín et al 2004), I use information theoretic terms t...

Students struggle to learn use phrasal verbs in written English. Books, writings, and social media quotes can all be used as sources. Phrasal are the most common English language. However, students must also understand form of verb order avoid making errors when writing. This study aimed analyze students' narrative texts eleventh grade SMAN 1 Pati was search for types verbs, solutions suggestio...

Recent research in cognitive linguistics has shown that idiomatic phrases are decomposable and analyzable and that the individual words in idiomatic phrases systematically contribute to the overall figurative interpretations. This cognitive linguistic view suggests that enhancing awareness of conceptual metaphors embedded in the individual words may help second language students to learn idioms...

This paper is part of my thesis which aims to examine the lexical and grammatical patterns of phrasal verbs. A phrasal verb is a two-word verb which consists of a main verb and a particle, both elements contributing to its meaning. The meanings of phrasal verbs can range across different degrees of idiomaticity. They can be classified as literal, semi-figurative and idiomatic phrasal verbs in t...

The article discusses the main issues related to history of phrasal verbs. Particular attention is paid analysis verbs used in economic discourse from point view their communicative function and peculiarities interpretation for a foreign-language audience. provides examples use discourse, using example various journals devoted economics. In process analyzing verbs, author makes it clear that be...

This book is a long-needed study of certain verbal collocations in English which – on the basis of semantic and syntactic similarities – Claudia Claridge groups together as 'multi-word verbs', including: phrasal verbs (burn N down [transitive], fly away [intransitive]), prepositional verbs (agree to N), phrasal prepositional verbs (look down on N [transitive], put N down to N [ditransitive]), v...

In spite of the highly beneficial applications of corpus linguistics in language pedagogy, it has not found its way into mainstream EFL. The major reasons seem to be the teachers’ lack of training and the unavailability of resources, especially computers in language classes. Phrasal verbs have been shown to be a problematic area of learning English as a foreign language due to their semantic op...