... middle morphological derivation natural path nominative object participant passive patient phrasal verb prototype semantic role serial verb setting subject theme trajector universality voice In the broadest sense, the term verb is used in CG for any expression...

..., such as allude to, dispose of, rely on, and vouch for. It differentiates prepositional verbs from phrasal verbs, as each phrasal verb includes a simple verb that may occur by itself. The meaning of prepositional verbs when it is used alone is significantly different from the meaning of the phrasal verb...

.... Next it considers different descriptive and theoretical approaches to multi-word items. The following sections look in turn at idioms, proverbs, phrasal verbs, binomials, similes, then looser kinds of formulae and phraseological item including prefabs. The final section comments briefly on some cross...

... and one or two prepositions or adverbs called phrasal verbs. It highlights the meaning of a phrasal verb that cannot be directly inferred from the basic meanings of its component words, so that each phrasal verb is, in effect, a separate lexeme and must be accorded its own entry in the dictionary...