Phrasal verbs are pervasive in all registers of English and make
this language highly idiomatic. Due to their syntactic, semantic,
and idiomatic complexity, however, phrasal verbs present an immense
learning load even for advanced learners. Their meaning can usually
not be derived from the individual meanings of its elements; they
are often polysemous and submitted to contextual restrictions. From
a contrastive point of view, phrasal verbs correspond only partly
to similar constructions in the native languages of German and
Italian learners. Both learner groups are thus confronted with a
verb type which, on the one hand, is indispensable for idiomatic
English but whose teaching, on the other hand, is often neglected
in the foreign language classroom. On the basis of detailed
quantitative and qualitative analyses of all phrasal verbs
extracted from the German and Italian components of the
International Corpus of Learner English, the real problems of
advanced learners are described. With the consistent comparison of
two learner groups, the author aims at contributing to the general
understanding of advanced learner language.
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