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Phrasal verbs and the categories of postponement

Geoffrey J. Huck

pp. 249-263

It was the existence of sentences like (1), containing phrasal verbs, or verb-particle constructions, which led Bar-Hillel et al. (1960) to conclude that categorial grammars were inadequate to analyze natural language ("so long, at least, as the category assignments are natural"):

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-6878-4_9

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Huck, G. J. (1988)., Phrasal verbs and the categories of postponement, in R. T. Oehrle, E. Bach & D. Wheeler (eds.), Categorial grammars and natural language structures, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 249-263.

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