Abstract
The article is concerned with semantic functions of the postverb up – the second component of English verbs of the type move up, fix up, round up (Vup-s) from the point of view of changing the lexical meaning of the verb and its aspectual characteristics in terms of terminativeness / durativeness, and modes of action. Analysis and classification of Vup-s according to their lexical meaning and modes of action reveal the systemic character of the language. Vup-s are viewed as derivational units – analytic words – in the plane of word formation theory. KEY WORDS: semantics, phrasal verbs, postverb, lexical meaning and its aspectual characteristics, lexico-semantic group. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15181/rh.v19i0.1327
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