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  • Phrasal Verbs: The Elephant Is a Whole, Not Its Parts
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    Phrasal Verbs: The Elephant Is a Whole, Not Its Parts

    Although grammatical relationships among forms of lexemes are expressed through either inflection or periphrasis, English is a highly periphrastic language. According to the Oxford English Dictionary (2008), periphrasis is defined as “a phrase of two or more words used to express a grammatical relationship which would otherwise be expressed by the inflection of a single […] More