VERBAL USES OF PREPOSITIONS: PREPOSITIONAL VERBS AND PHRASAL VERBS
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Keywords: prepositions, phrasal verb, prepositional verbs.Abstract
Abstract: The present paper determines recollecting some of the academic studies carried out on the employment of prepositions, with a deepening in their use in the verbal function. Moreover, we have observed how verbs are not only made by a single-word lexeme, but on the contrary, the verbs in which we can observe prepositions to be a full part of the verbal element are of two types: prepositional verbs and phrasal verbs. These two variants of verbs, despite appearing extremely similar in their form, present a great range of differences, which mainly depend on the syntactic level of words order and adverbs insertion. Nonetheless, preposition use in general, but also their specific use with verbs, proves to be extremely difficult and unsystematic from a semantic point of view, and an evidence to it can be observed in the quite little material available in the studies about semantic relations among prepositional sub-sections’ functions.
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