• openAccess   Conceptualizing humans as animals in English verb particle constructions 

      Panther, Klaus-Uwe; Thornburg, Linda L. Universitat Jaume I (2012-07)
      Verb particle constructions with animal names used as verbs (‘VPrt critter constructions’), such as horse around, clam up, and rat out, are interesting because of their (i) grammatical structure, (ii) pragmatic function, ...