Measuring compositionality in phrasal verbs
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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 to reveal and express a complicated web of relationships between verbs and particles. In so doing, I am able to predict two different sets of data—one semantic, the other syntactic.
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