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It was the existence of sentences like (1), containing phrasal verbs, or verb-particle constructions, which led Bar-Hillel et al. (1960) to conclude that categorial grammars were inadequate to analyze natural language (“so long, at least, as the category assignments are natural”):
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Huck, G.J. (1988). Phrasal Verbs and the Categories of Postponement. In: Oehrle, R.T., Bach, E., Wheeler, D. (eds) Categorial Grammars and Natural Language Structures. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 32. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-6878-4_9
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