The English Phrasal Verb, 1650–Present

Rodríguez-Puente, Paula

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“…The cognitive classification of lexical and phraseological thematic groups and models of terminological systems of various areas and their comparative study gains more importance and becomes a topical direction of Russian and foreign researchers. This is reflected both in works on general terminology of A. V. Spirov [1], S. Khudanpur [2], R. Rosenfeld [3], T. Hoffmann [4], A Katherine [5] and in studies on theoretical problems of language classification of Z. T. J. Kamali [6], M. Nowruzi [7], A. Goldberg [8], T. Hoffmann [9], J. Davila-Montes [10], P. Rodríguez-Puente [11], J-B. Kim [12], T. Breban [13], R. Breeze [14], B. Szmrecsanyi [15].…”

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Cognitive classification of the names of building materials in Russian and English languages

2021

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Representation of cognitive area and revealing terminological characteristics of the Russian and English names of building materials (NBMs) determine the topicality of the research and the article’s problematic. The authors of the article analyze the Russian and English NBMs and reveal their main stages with the comparative description, and chооse the definition of the names, in which the basic word-identifier of the leading cognitive features have been highlighted. These features have become the basics for the formation of the thematic groups. The classification of the names of building materials is formed from five groups: organic materials / orgonicheskie materialy; inorganic materials / neorgonicheskie materialy; metals and metal products / metaly i izdelija iz nih; other building materials / prochie stroitel’nye materialy; properties of building materials / svojstva stroitel’nyh materialov. Properties of building materials is subdivided into models according to their structural characteristics: physical properties / fizicheskie svoystva; mechanical properties / mehanicheskie svojstva; defects / defekty.

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Cognitive classification of the names of building materials in Russian and English languages

2021

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The social embedding of a syntactic alternation: Variable particle placement in Ontario English

Röthlisberger

Tagliamonte

2020

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The present work investigates the effects of social constraints on word order variation in particle placement in Ontario English, Canada. While previous research has documented numerous linguistic factors conditioning the choice of variant, social correlates have so far remained unexplored. To address this gap, we analyze 6,047 variable phrasal verbs from the vernacular speech of six communities in Ontario. These data were coded for length of the direct object, verb semantics, community, and the individual's education, gender, age, and occupation. Our analyses confirm previous findings that variation in particle placement is predominantly determined by direct object length. However, we also expose significant social and geographic factors, and importantly an effect of age, with younger speakers using the joined variant more than older speakers. Further analysis confirms that the latter effect is consistent across communities, indicating a change in progress, possibly due to ongoing grammaticalization of particles in the verb phrase.

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Phrasal verbs in Early Modern English spoken language: a colloquialization conspiracy?

Rodríguez-Puente¹,

OBAYA-CUELI²

2022

English Language and Linguistics

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Phrasal verbs (e.g. fade away, give up) tend to be associated with spoken, colloquial registers, not only in Present-day English, but also in previous stages of the language. This view has recently been challenged by Thim's (2006a, 2012) ‘colloquialization conspiracy’, according to which the idea that phrasal verbs are colloquial is based on a misconception which first arose in the eighteenth century. In the current study we seek to verify Thim's claim by exploring phrasal verbs in A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760, a 1.2-million-word corpus of Early Modern English (EModE) speech-related text types. Based on a sample of over 7,000 examples, we demonstrate that the linguistic features, distribution and high productivity of phrasal verbs in the EModE period point towards a full entrenchment of these combinations in the spoken language, which leads us to the conclusion that the colloquial status of phrasal verbs in EModE is not merely a matter of a ‘colloquialization conspiracy’.

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The English Phrasal Verb, 1650–Present

Cited by 11 publications

References 144 publications

Cognitive classification of the names of building materials in Russian and English languages

Cognitive classification of the names of building materials in Russian and English languages

The social embedding of a syntactic alternation: Variable particle placement in Ontario English

Phrasal verbs in Early Modern English spoken language: a colloquialization conspiracy?

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