Course title: English Phrasal Verbs
Code: AN159 G2
Credits: Semester: Type of Class:
seminar
2
5/6
Evaluation:
sem. mark
Language of Instruction: English
Description:
The course is designed to highlight the syntax and semantics of phrasal verbs in English.
The topics to be discussed include identification of phrasal verbs in the literature, the
differences between phrasal verbs used in a narrower sense (verb + particle constructions)
and prepositional verbs, the placement of particles in relation to the object, phrasal verbs
and their single-word equivalents, phrasal verbs used as nouns and adjectives, the
diachronic development of phrasal verbs; properties of verbs that constitute phrasal verbs,
types of particles which most frequently occur in phrasal verbs, phrasal verbs as aspect and
aktionsart markers, phrasal verbs in cognitive grammar, phrasal verbs and metaphors and
the problems of teaching and learning phrasal verbs. The aim of the course is also to
practise the usuage of phrasal verbs in Modern English. Final assessment is based on the
students’ oral presentations during the term and an essay they are expected to write at the
end of the term.
Readings:
Brinton, L. J. The Development of English Aspectual Systems. Cambridge University Press.
163-234, 1988.
Gooddale, M. Collins Cobuild Phrasal Verbs. Workbook. London: Harpers Collins
Publisher, 2002.
Gries T. Stefan Particle Movement: A cognitive and functional approach. Cognitive
Linguistics. 10: 105-145, 1999.
Huddleston, R. & G. K. Pullum. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 272-290, 2002.
Lakoff, G. Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind.
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. 416-461, 1987.
Morgan, Pamela Figuring out figure out: Metaphor and the semantics of the English verbparticle construction. In: Cognitive Linguistics 8-4: 327-357, 1997.
Quirk, R. et al. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman.
1150-1168, 1985.
Wyss, Robert Teaching English multi-word verbs is not a lost cause after all. The Weekly
Column, Article 90, 2000.
Course director: dr. Kovács Éva PhD
Instructors: dr. Kovács Éva PhD