Antonio José Silvestre López
VPCs are one of the most problematic areas for EFLlearners. Unfortunately many pedagogical approachesto VPCs give extra importance to the verbal element,and the few theoretical accounts focusing on theparticle might still benefit from a sounder basis tosustain their proposals and the development ofappropriate pedagogical materials. This book intendsto provide for this theoretical basis by taking aparticle-centred perspective to VPCs. After anupdated account on the semantics of particles, itfocuses on their contribution to VPCs and theirinteraction with contextual elements to yieldspecific meanings. Our claims are illustrated throughthe analysis of different VPCs combining with In andOn. All uses of these prepositional and phrasal verbsare classified in different stages of alexicalisation continuum and explained under the sameparameters, hence reducing the significance of thetraditional phrasal-prepositional verb distinction.This book is the embryo for new lines of research onparticles and VPCs and the creation of pedagogicalmaterials for EFL learners; therefore it might beespecially useful to researchers and EFL teachersinterested in space semantics and VPCs.
