Phrasal and prepositional verbs in specialised texts: a creative device

Abstract

New phrasal and prepositional verbs are created in the English language to express new concepts. In this sense, research and innovations carried out in scientific and technical fields may make use of these verb and particle combinations to phrase new thoughts. In this article, the use of phrasal and prepositional verbs in specialised texts is discussed. The final section analyses phrasal and prepositional verbs using the particles "up", "down", "off", "over", and "out" in a corpus of 80 research articles in the area of Botany.

Keywords

• Phrasal verbs
• Prepositional verbs
• Corpus
• Qualitative analysis