This paper presents an optimality theoretic approach to the transitive particle verb construction (PVC), also referred to in the literature e.g. as phrasal verbs or separable complex verbs. This construction occurs in most if not all of the Germanic languages and has been studied most intensely and controversially in the generative literature (cf. Dehé et al 2002 and Dehé 2002 for recent analys...

Over the past two decades or so, Multi-Word Expressions (MWEs; also called Multi-word Units) have been an increasingly important concern for Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing (NLP). The term MWE has been used to refer to various types of linguistic units and expressions, including idioms, noun compounds, phrasal verbs, light verbs and other habitual collocations. However...

Thesaurus, which links between linguistic expressions (or concepts) based on various semantic relations, is one of the most fundamental semantic resources in a broad range of NLP tasks. A lot of work has been carried out relying on thesauri, such asWordNet (Miller, 1995) and automatically created versions of it. The entries of most existing thesauri are either single words or word sequences inc...

Understanding the textual distinction between spokenness-informality and writtenness-formality serves many purposes. It can facilitate text mining, improve parser accuracy, offer better appraisals of student writing, and may also facilitate better interpretations of experimental data. Previous studies of such textual variation (e.g., Biber, 1988, Louwerse et al., 2004) have failed to produce a ...

This article is about Phrasal Verb found in Coldplay’s Song Album A Head Full of Dream and its contribution to vocabulary learning. The researchers utilized a descriptive qualitative method as the data not numerical but instead taken from lyrics songs form words phrases. object research phrasal verbs Dream. There are eleven on album: Dreams, Birds, Hymn Weekend, Everglow, Adventure lifetime, Fu...

Verb-particle constructions (phrasal verbs) are a notoriously difficult aspect of English to acquire for second-language (L2) learners. This study was conducted to assess whether L2 English speakers would show sensitivity to the subtle semantic properties of these constructions, namely the gradations in semantic transparency of different verb-particle constructions (e.g., finish up vs. chew out...