The preposition, ‘on’, features in a good number of phrasal verbs. A phrasal verb consists of a verb with a preposition or adverb (or both at times), with a meaning different from those of its ...

Phrasal verbs represent a practically ... the most productive means for the creation of new verbs that exists in Modern English (Konishi, 1958; Makkai, 1972). To illustrate this diversification of ...