The ability to comprehend and produce phrasal verbs, as lexical chunks or groups of words which are commonly found together, is an important part of language learning. This study investigates the effect of ‘conceptual metaphor awareness’, as a newly developed technique in Cognitive Linguistics, on learning phrasal verbs by Iranian intermediate EFL learners. To meet this objective, two intact ho...

In this paper we give an account of the representation of Danish verbs in the semantic lexicon model, SIMPLE. Danish is a satellite-framed language where prepositions and adverbial particles express what in many other languages form part of the meaning of the verb stem. This aspect of Danish – as well as of the other Scandinavian languages challenges the borderlines of a universal, strictly mod...

topicalization and focus movement have been discussed in literature with respect to a vriety of their properties. in persian, syntactic objects within tense phrase, including phrasal arguments, may freely be displaced to a higher position and the reordering of these elements is mainly considered to be the result of discourse functional elements such as topic and focus. the present study is an e...

In this note I would like to approach the question posed in the title, and in the literature, from a purely consequentialist perspective. In other words, I want to ask, would treating extreme poverty as a violation of human rights actually lead to a reduction in poverty, or at least lead to the conditions which would in turn lead to a reduction in poverty? This is not to minimize or deny the im...

Vocabulary is one of the essential components of language and learning phrasal verbs as part of vocabulary is quite challenging for foreign language learners. The present study aimed at investigating the effects of visual and auditory input enhancement on learning non-congruent phrasal verbs. The participants of the study were 90 intermediate English language learners who were divided into two ...

In American English, the presence of creaky voice can derive from distinct linguistic processes, including phrasal creak (prolonged irregular voicing, often at edges of prosodic phrases) and coda /t/ glottalization (when the alveolar closure for syllablefinal /t/ is replaced by or produced simultaneously with glottal constriction). Previous work has shown that listeners can differentiate words ...

There is a considerable linguistic debate on whether phrasal verbs (e.g., turn up, break down) are processed as two separate words connected by a syntactic rule or whether they form a single lexical unit. Moreover, views differ on whether meaning (transparency vs. opacity) plays a role in determining their syntactically-connected or lexical status. As linguistic arguments could not settle these...

Swedish has two main types of action nominal constructions (ANCs), either compounding or phrasal (incorporating nominal, in Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993), which contain deverbal nouns -ande -(n)ing, along with dependent elements. This study investigates ANCs use, based on a limited data set from COVID-19 corpus. It adopts lexeme-based approach, where (simplex nominals), whether including ‑(n)ing, are...

Swedish has two main types of action nominal constructions (ANCs), either compounding or phrasal (incorporating nominal, in Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993), which contain deverbal nouns -ande -(n)ing, along with dependent elements. This study investigates ANCs use, based on a limited data set from COVID-19 corpus. It adopts lexeme-based approach, where (simplex nominals), whether including (n)ing, are ...