Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 1998. Vol. 2. Eger Journal of English Studies.(Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 26)

Studies - Éva Kovács: Identification of phrasal verbs in the literature

He ran through the main points. He has provided for his family well. [A3] intransitive pattern with a particle and preposition E.g.: The coaster went aground on a sandbank. He scraped along on a low salary. [Bli] transitive pattern with a particle E.g. These entertainers make their stories (them) up. These entertainers make up their stories. [ B

1 ii ] transitive pattern with a particle E.g. The comedian doesn't get his jokes (them) across. The police moved spectators (them) along. [Bliii] transitive pattern with a particle E.g. The search party has given up all hope of finding the missing aircraft. The hedgerows put forth new buds. [B2] transitive pattern with a preposition E.g. I have taken careful note of your remark. I don't hold his past feelings against him. [B3] transitive pattern with a particle and preposition E.g. We brought them around to a different way of thinking. They filled me in on the latest developments. The 1993 new edition of the dictionary entitled Oxford Dictionary of Phrasal verbs, however, defines phrasal verbs as follows: "When a verb + particle or a verb + preposition or a verb + particle + preposition is a unit of meaning like in Cholera broke out in the north of the country, ('start suddenly or violently'); He glanced through the article quickly, ('scan (sth) quickly or casually') or He just wasn 't going to put up with all the caterwauling, ('tolerate') it is a phrasal verb." As it is clear from the above discussion, dictionaries of phrasal verbs use the term phrasal verbs in a broader sense. On their cover page we can read phrasal verbs, but they, E.g.: The Collins Cobuild Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs, make a distinction between prepositional, phrasal and phrasal prepositional verbs, which is apparent in their notation given in the Extra Column : V + ADV, V + PREP, V + ADV + PREP. Quirk et al. (1985:1150-1161) use a most appropriate term, 'multi-word verbs', which they divide into: phrasal verbs, prepositional verbs and phrasal -prepositional verbs. They have the following types: 115