phrasal verb
Noun
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Noun
phrasal verb (plural phrasal verbs)
- (linguistics) A two-word verb, consisting of a verb and a "small" adverb, that has an idiomatic meaning not easily predictable from the individual parts.
- In 'The police told the driver to pull over', 'pull over' is a phrasal verb.
- (linguistics, more loosely) A phrase, consisting of a verb and either or both of a preposition or adverb, that has idiomatic meaning.
- Thus, it would seem that as far as GAPPING is concerned, the whole expression put off is somehow treated as a single 'compound Verb'. But this is the very intuition which we encapsulated in analysis (125) (b), by giving the sequence [put off] the status of a single V constituent (i.e. by analysing it as a Phrasal Verb). Thus, facts about GAPPING lend yet further support to analysis (125).
- French: verbe à particule, phrasal verb
- Portuguese: locução verbal, verbo frasal
- Russian: фра́зовый глаго́л
- Spanish: locución verbal
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