Phrasal verbs and the categories of postponement

Geoffrey J. Huck

pp. 249-263

in: Richard T. Oehrle, Emmon Bach, Deirdre Wheeler (eds), Categorial grammars and natural language structures, Berlin, Springer, 1988

Abstract

It was the existence of sentences like (1), containing phrasal verbs, or verb-particle constructions, which led Bar-Hillel et al. (1960) to conclude that categorial grammars were inadequate to analyze natural language ("so long, at least, as the category assignments are natural"):