Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 1996. Vol. 1. Eger Journal of English Studies.(Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 24)

Péter Antonyi: Phrasal verbs: an attempt at a syntactic account

3 A VP-shell analysis of phrasal verbs 3.1 Facts and problems of application Transitive phrasal verbs can also be regarded as double object constructions. In this framework, phrasal verbs are syntactically nothing else but prepositional verbs, from which the verb is extracted by the type of V-raising put forward by Larson. (2d) Drunks would put the customers right off their food. (2a) Drunks would put the customers off. (2) Drunks would put off the customers. 101