PHRASAL VERBS, COMPOSITIONALITY AND IDIOMATICITY
A CASE STUDY
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Keywords: Cognitive Linguistics. Conceptual Metaphor. Phrasal verbs.Abstract
This paper analyzes phrasal verbs within the theoretical framework of Cognitive Linguistics (LANGACKER, 2008) regarding the metonymic and metaphorical aspects of these constructions. Compositionality (FILLMORE, 1979; GOLDBERG, 1995, 2006; LANGACKER, 2008), and metaphoricity (LAKOFF; JOHNSON, 1980; LAKOFF, 1987; JOHNSON, 1987; LAKOFF; TURNER, 1989) are discussed in view of the data collected from an American English corpus (COCA, 2017). We aim to illustrate that some PVs retain the individual meanings of their parts, whereas others convey meanings that involve semantic extension (GOLDBERG, 1995, 2006) by means of image schemas projections (JOHNSON, 1987), integrating more than one action or event, which can only be understood through a discursive and (inter)subjective perspective (TRAUGOTT; DASHER, 2005).
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