The phrasal verb plays an important role in the attainment of English proficiency. However, it has been recognised as problematic for learners worldwide various reasons, with result that tend to employ avoidance strategies when confronted verb. Use (PV) not researched any great extent South African environment, a limitation this study seeks address. Using corpus undergraduate writing, PV use by...

With this paper, I introduce new evidence in support of the notion of syntactic decomposition of eventive verbs into two separate phrasal projections, one projected (in some sense) by the event itself, and one by the resultant state. The decomposition is essentially that which was argued for in much work in the Generative Semantics tradition, along the lines laid out in, e.g. McCawley (1968), o...

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The present study is a corpus-based investigation of syntactic priming, i.e. the tendency to reuse syntactic constructions. On the basis of data from the ICE-GB corpus, I analyze two different pairs of syntactic patterns, the so-called dative alternation and particle placement of transitive phrasal verbs. Although it has sometimes been argued that only experimental data can contribute to studie...

Biak language, spoken by 50.000 to 70.000 native speakers, belongs the West New Guinea subgroup of Austronesian language family and is in Papua (formerly known as Irian Jaya), Indonesia, which found northern part Geelvink Bay. The typology this SVO has an agglutinative pattern nouns are simple.This article aims discuss semantic function particle ma describe its form. technique used analyze data...

Idiomatic expressions are with a figurative meaning different from their literal meaning, and therefore, they cannot be understood literally. This study aims to scrutinize some aspects of the translation idiomatic in mystery movie entitled ‘Murder on Orient Express’. Seventy-seven were found movie. The idioms can categorized as follows: keywords uses (16) nouns adjectives (2), pairs (1), prepos...

In pursuing the mapping between syntax and phonology/prosody, little attention has been paid to kinds of syntactic information that can affect prosody. this paper, we explore Japanese downstep, a process in phrasal phonology. What affects downstep what does not? Specifically, do lexical categories downstep? We investigate effects nouns, adjectives, verbs different settings (e.g., [X1 [X2 N]], [...

Abstract This paper discusses a theory of conversion (zero derivation) in terms phrasal spellout. In this approach, there are no zero morphemes. Instead, the ‘silent’ meaning components pronounced cumulatively within overt As an empirical case, we discuss adjective/verb ambiguity as narrow . verbs, these roots have both inchoative and causative sense. Following Ramchand (2008), assume that such...