Re: (Separable) suffixes?
| From: | <morphemeaddict@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, February 23, 2007, 2:52 |
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In a message dated 2/22/2007 12:03:43 PM Central Standard Time,
eldin_raigmore@YAHOO.COM writes:
> But "Put up", as in "Clark put up the Christmas lights", is a phrasal verb;
> because you can say "Clark put the Christmas lights up", and must say "Clark
> put them up" and can't say "Clark put up them".
I disagree with your analysis of this example. I believe that in this case
"up" is merely a locative adverb filling a semantic slot of "put", not part of
a phrasal verb.
stevo