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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
lexicalise .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective expressed by a word
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I suspect that "The thing is" has become, as it were, "lexicalised".
languagehat.com 2009
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Thanks Luiz – and, yes, most grammars create an ‘arch-category’ called multi-word verbs, within which both phrasal and prepositional verbs (not to mention phrasal-prepositional verbs, of the type: look forward to, get along with …) are sub-categorised, along with other anomolous constructions, such as “to make do” and de-lexicalised verb combos, as in ‘take care of’, ‘make fun of’ etc.
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Thanks Luiz – and, yes, most grammars create an ‘arch-category’ called multi-word verbs, within which both phrasal and prepositional verbs not to mention phrasal-prepositional verbs, of the type: look forward to, get along with… are sub-categorised, along with other anomolous constructions, such as “to make do” and de-lexicalised verb combos, as in ‘take care of’, ‘make fun of’ etc.
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