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Sung, ilho. “On the Productivity of Word-formation of English Phrasal Verbs through Corpus Analysis.” Studies in English Language & Literature 38.1 (2012): 201-221. The main aim of this study is to examine productivity of verb particle constructions. One of the most productive patterns of the English language is that of phrasal verbs. Studies dealing with the processes of the productivity usually disregard the study of phrasal verbs as a lexical and syntactic resource for word formation. The flexibility of verb plus particle combination to form different word categories should be seen as an advantage when it comes to creating or expanding new ideas. However, an obstacle to the study of phrasal verbs to find its way into English grammar is due to lack of systematic treatment so far. So, in this study the highest frequent phrasal verb constructions in the specialized English corpora and high school English textbooks are analyzed. The findings indicate that a small subset of lexical verbs combines with the most frequent particles to account for more than half the phrasal verb occurrences. This can give an insight into the word formation process of the phrasal verbs, providing some guidelines for classroom presentation of the most common uses of phrasal verbs (Wonkwang University)