Radford (1988: p. 101) differentiated between the phrasal verbs and prepositional verbs on both conceptual and empirical grounds. He suggested eight different tests with respect to their empirical ...

This study investigates the cognitive processing of verb-particle constructions (VPCs) using eye-tracking data to explore how English native speakers process different types of the sequence noun ...

We maintain the idea that both prepositional verbs and phrasal verbs do exist in Turkish as well. We will try to show that this distinction is also borne out with the empirical tests of Radford (1988) ...

Here, the phrasal verb keeps on means continues. It has the same meaning as keeps but is slightly stronger. Other phrasal verbs that extend the meaning of the main verb are hurry up and sit down. Many ...