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- Title
ENGLISH VERB PARTICLES AND THEIR ACQUISITION. A COGNITIVE APPROACH.
- Authors
Neagu, Mariana
- Abstract
This paper revisits the issue of English phrasal verbs from the perspective of particles and the meaning they contribute to the composite meaning as a whole. The question it addresses is whether particles are purely idiomatic (i.e. arbitrarily or chaotically used) or whether they rather consist of clusters of related and transparent meanings so that they can he used in a quite motivated, logical way. Following the cognitive linguistic approach, the paper will consider the spatial domain as the source for a large variety of semantic extensions to non-locative domains through metonymy and metaphor and will analyze the meanings of two of the most frequently used particles in English: OUT and UP. Therefore, the analysis is meant to demonstrate that English verb particles disclose figurative related meanings derived from a central/prototypical locative meaning. The abstract senses did not develop at random hut systematically, and this systematicity should not he disregarded if we really want to reduce the amount of memory work that learners of English (including non-native speaking teachers and translators) must invest in learning how particles and phrasal verbs are used.
- Subjects
ENGLISH language; VERBS; ENGLISH verb phrases; LANGUAGE acquisition; PARTICIPLE (Grammar); METONYMS; COGNITIVE learning
- Publication
Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada (John Benjamins Publishing Co.), 2007, Vol 20, p121
- ISSN
0213-2028
- Publication type
Article