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 t...

Recent research in cognitive linguistics has shown that idiomatic phrases are decomposable and analyzable and that the individual words in idiomatic phrases systematically contribute to the overall figurative interpretations. This cognitive linguistic view suggests that enhancing awareness of conceptual metaphors embedded in the individual words may help second language students to learn idioms...

This paper is part of my thesis which aims to examine the lexical and grammatical patterns of phrasal verbs. A phrasal verb is a two-word verb which consists of a main verb and a particle, both elements contributing to its meaning. The meanings of phrasal verbs can range across different degrees of idiomaticity. They can be classified as literal, semi-figurative and idiomatic phrasal verbs in t...

The article discusses the main issues related to history of phrasal verbs. Particular attention is paid analysis verbs used in economic discourse from point view their communicative function and peculiarities interpretation for a foreign-language audience. provides examples use discourse, using example various journals devoted economics. In process analyzing verbs, author makes it clear that be...

In spite of the highly beneficial applications of corpus linguistics in language pedagogy, it has not found its way into mainstream EFL. The major reasons seem to be the teachers’ lack of training and the unavailability of resources, especially computers in language classes. Phrasal verbs have been shown to be a problematic area of learning English as a foreign language due to their semantic op...

This article describes a linguistically informed method for integrating phrasal verbs into statistical machine translation (SMT) systems. In a case study involving English to Bulgarian SMT, we show that our method does not only improve translation quality but also outperforms similar methods previously applied to the same task. We attribute this to the fact that, in contrast to previous work on...

Phrasal verbs (PVs) are notably essential for English language learners due to their common use in spoken and informal written language; however, as a foreign (EFL) may find it difficult master phrasal verbs, not only at receptive but also productive levels. The syntactic semantic complexities prove much more troublesome academic writing those whose mother tongue does feature verb formations. T...