


A contrastive survey of the basic semantic and syntactic characteristics of verb-particle constructions in the present-day Germanic languages shows that the English construction is structurally unremarkable and its analysis as a periphrastic word-formation is proposed. The book traces the evolution of the English verb-particle construction (‘phrasal verb’) from Indo-European and Germanic up to the present.
LONGMAN PHRASAL VERBS DICTIONARY FREE DOWNLOAD FOR ANDROID PLUS
Longman Phrasal Verbs Dictionary (2000), Macmillan Phrasal Verbs Plus (2005) Cambridge .

