The Most Frequently Used English Phrasal Verbs in American and British English: A Multicorpus Examination

By Dilin Liu. 2011

127 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. M. Garnier
2. N. Schmitt
3. E. Peters
4. Stuart Webb
5. Lars Stenius Stæhr
6. A. Pellicer‐Sánchez
7. Parveneh Tavakoli
8. Johannes Eckerth

In Language and Linguistics

1. M. Garnier
2. N. Schmitt
3. E. Peters
4. Stuart Webb
5. Lars Stenius Stæhr
6. F. Boers
7. Kazuya Saito
8. Eva Puimège

Citations in the corpus

• Picking up polysemous phrasal verbs: How many do learners know and what facilitates this knowledge? (2016, background): “The list includes the 150 PVs which have been identified by previous research (Liu, 2011) as being the most frequent, i.e. having at least 10 tokens per million words in either the COCA or the BNC.”
• The PHaVE List: A pedagogical list of phrasal verbs and their most frequent meaning senses (2015, methodology): “As a consequence, as both Gardner and Davies (2007) and Liu (2011) point out in their recommendations, research is needed to determine the most frequent meaning senses of these most frequent PVs.”