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Dirven, René. 2001. The metaphoric in recent cognitive approaches to English phrasal verbs. Metaphorik.de 01 : 39–54. 16 pp.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English

Abstract

Cognitive linguistics is a multi-faceted enterprise, combining more syntactic-conceptual approaches with more semantic-conceptual ones. In the former, metaphor is downplayed, in the latter it is ever further exploited. But also the traditional syntactic-semantic approach is very vigorous; only it could profit by more input from the metaphorical drive. These different tendencies are exhibited in various analyses of phrasal verbs. (René Dirven)