The Open Cybernetics & Systemics Journal

2015, 9 : 2128-2134
Published online 2015 October 9. DOI: 10.2174/1874110X01509012128
Publisher ID: TOCSJ-9-2128

A Study of English Phrase Verb in Language Learning

Yongchang Rong
Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, China.

ABSTRACT

A phrase verb is a combination of verbs and adverbs or a preposition word. The increase in the number and the extensive use of the phrase verb is a notable feature of modern English, which has caused the extensive attention of linguists. Research situation of domestic and International English phrasal verbs are summarized in this paper putting forward from the perspective of cognitive linguistics to teaching of English phrasal verbs which should go to particle center processing path and give learners to images showing the polysemy of phrasal verbs and particles. The method of semantic analysis of phrase verb is in line with the law of human's cognition, which can promote the acquisition of English phrase verbs by foreign language learners through the expansion of metaphor.

Keywords:

English, language learners, phrase verb, research method.