A Small Class of Multiword Verbs in English: A Prepositional Verb or Transitive Phrasal Verb?

• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: 장경철(Kyungchul Chang)
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제108호, 19~37쪽, 전체 19쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2020.12.30

영문 초록

Some multiword verbs like run into ‘encounter’ in She ran into a friend have been called by two distinct names in the literature. They are prepositional verbs (with a fixed and specified preposition) or (inseparable or nonseparable) transitive phrasal verbs. This paper argues that this different use of terminology for the same multiword verbs actually reveals the nature of the whole class they belong to. The class is a cline of grammatical elements and properties between prepositional verbs and transitive phrasal verbs, and the set shared by these two subclasses is the locus of that cline. This characteristic mode of the cline is explained in terms of intersective constructional gradience and multiple inheritance.

목차

1. Introduction

2. A Cline of Prepositional and Transitive Phrasal Verbs

3. A Proposal

4. Concluding Remarks

References

키워드

multi-word verb transitive phrasal verb prepositional verb cline intersective constructional gradience multiple inheritance