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Wed 07 Jun 1995

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I note that someone has recently asked again about phrasal verbs, and
so I'm posting a summary of the replies I received after my own query
about 7 weeks ago. I'd like to thank Richard Drury and Kent Lee
for their kind responses. As I had only received these two responses,
I was waiting to see if more would arrive, but it looks like this topic
is better at inspiring queries than it is at generating replies.
Kent's remark about resultative verb compounds is intriguing and
should help in defining a basis for categorizing phrasal verbs in
English. Richard's bibliography addresses the history of English
phrasal verbs, a specific aspect of my original query.

--Marion Kee
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Marion Kee | I don't speak for CMU,
Knowledge Engineer, Center for Machine Translation | and CMU returns the favor.
Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA, USA | All opinions are my own.

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To Marion.KeeA.NL.CS.CMU.EDU
>From k-lee7uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kent Lee)
Subject re: phrasal verbs

Ms. Kee:

This is regarding your question on the Linguist list about verbs like "blow
dry", "jump start", etc. These seem somewhat similar to resultative verb
compounds in Chinese. I'm no syntactician, so I'll refer you to Li &
Thompson's book, "Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammer" for a
good discussion of Mandarin verbal compounds.

Kent Lee
grad student
Dept. of Linguistics
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign

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Date Thu, 20 Apr 1995 09:49:39 -0500 (EST)
>From Richard Dury (ERASMUSUNIBG.IT)
Subject Phrasal Verbs
To Marion Key (keea.nl.cs.cmu.edu)
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Dear Marion,

Here are some titles on the history of English phrasal verbs:
Bolinger, Dwight (1971). *The Phrasal Verb in English*. Harv=
ard UP.
A review by F raser in *Language* 50: 568-75=A9

Brinton, J. Laurel (1988). *The Devel. of the Eng. Aspectual =
System*.
CUP.

de la Cruz, Juan M. (1969). *Origins and Development of the Phr. Vb.
to the End of the Middle Eng. Period*. PhD diss., Queen's Univ., Belfast.

--- (1972b). 'The Origins of the Germanic Phrasal Verb'.
*Indogermanisch Forschu ngen* 77: 73-96.

--- (1972b). 'ME Verbs accompanied by a locative particle'.
*Orbis* 21: 114-35.

--- (1973). 'A late 13th cent. change in Eng. structure'.
*Orbis* 22:161-176.

--- (1975). 'OE pure prefixes: Structure and function'.
*Linguistics* 145: 47-82.

Denison, David (1985). 'Origins of completetive UP in Eng'.
*Neophil. Mitteilung en* 86: 37-61.

Fraser, Bruce (1976). *The Verb-particle combination in Eng*.
Academic Press.

Hiltunen, Risto (1983). *The decline of prefixes and the beginning
 of the Eng. P hr. Vb*. Turku: Turun Yliopisto.

Mitchell, Bruce (1978). 'Preposition, adverbs etc. in OE'.
*Neophil.Mitteilunge n* 79: 240-57.

Roberts, Murat H. (1936). 'The antiquity of the Germanic
verb-adverb locution'. *Journal of Eng. and Germanic Philology* 35: 466-81.

von Schon, Catherine V. (1977). *The origin of phrasal verbs
in Eng.*. PhD diss. , State Univ. of NY at Stony Brook.

These are taken from the bibliography of a Laurea (=3DM.A.)
thesis that I supervised some years ago. Good luck with this
fascinating subject.
Richard Dury ERASMUS at UNIBG.IT