Timeline for Is "Put together" a phrasal verb?
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| Feb 19 at 13:59 | comment | added | BillJ | @EdwinAshworth I can't remember if you have a copy of CGEL. If you have, there's an excellent section on compounds in Ch19. | |
| Feb 19 at 13:50 | comment | added | BillJ | @EdwinAshworth I disagree with those who give it as a word sequence, "Hotpot" passes the tests foe compoundhood. As you know, I don't subscribe to the idea of there being such a thing as an 'open compound'. To me, it's a contradiction in terms. | |
| Feb 19 at 13:08 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @BillJ Dictionaries give the spelling variants hot pot and hotpot for the lexeme: CD / Farlex /// {MW and Britannica have the open form only; Longman only the closed form}. //// Collins has 'particle board or particleboard'. | |
| Feb 19 at 7:44 | comment | added | BillJ | @EdwinAshworth I don't think so. Dictionaries rightly give it as a compound noun, a single word, not a word sequence: link / link / link | |
| Feb 18 at 22:57 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @BillJ But inkwell, ink-well and ink well [not the verb + adverb incarnation] are interchangeable. Spelling variants. | |
| Feb 18 at 19:44 | comment | added | Lambie | Try phrasal lexeme. Sold and sold out do not have the same meaning. | |
| Feb 18 at 18:37 | comment | added | BillJ | @EdwinAshworth I agree that "inkwell" is a compound noun, also "ashtray" etc. "Sell-out" is a compound noun in, for e.g. "The concert was a sell-out". But in, for e.g., "The concert was "sold out", "sold out" is not a 'multi-word verb'; rather, sold" is a prepositional verb with the PP "out" as complement. In that example, "sold out" is a constituent, but it's not a constituent at word level; it's just "sold" that is a verb. | |
| Feb 18 at 15:31 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I agree that there are different levels of cohesiveness: 'put together N or put N together' = 'assemble N' AND 'put the Ns together or put together all the Ns' = 'put all the Ns into a close-knit pile/bunch/room/category ...'. I do regard compounds like 'ink well' or MWVs like 'sell out' as single lexemes. | |
| Jan 18 at 21:54 | history | answered | Barmar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |