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phrasal typology

phrasal typology noun: the study of phrasal verbs, idioms, and hyphenated nouns and adjectives (and of rhetorical and literary terminology) and how they are categorized or typed.

Noun

phrasal typology (uncountable)

  1. The study of phrasal verbs, idioms, and hyphenated nouns and adjectives (and of rhetorical and literary terminology) and how they are categorized or typed.

Questions about phrasal typology

What does phrasal typology mean?
Phrasal typology means the study of phrasal verbs, idioms, and hyphenated nouns and adjectives (and of rhetorical and literary terminology) and how they are categorized or typed.
What part of speech is phrasal typology?
Phrasal typology is a noun.

Words near phrasal typology in the dictionary

  1. phrasal nouns
  2. phrasal preposition
  3. phrasal prepositional verb
  4. phrasal prepositional verbs
  5. phrasal prepositions
  6. phrasal typology
  7. phrasal verb
  8. phrasal verbs
  9. phrasally
  10. phrasals
  11. phrase

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