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Verb-preposition constructions and small clauses in English1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Bas Aarts
Bas Aarts
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English Department, University College London
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The analysis of verb-particle constructions, or verb-preposition constructions, as I will call them, has-given rise to much debate in the linguistic literature over a long period of time. Traditionally, a bipartite classification of these structures has been assumed consisting of a class of ‘phrasal verbs’, such as those in (1) and (2), and a class of ‘prepositional verbs’, such as those in (3):

(1) I switched the light off.

(2) I looked the information up.

(3) Look at the prospectus: it clearly states that your admission depends on your examination results.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , September 1989 , pp. 277 - 290
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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