Like single-word verbs, each PV has its own lexical features including subcategorization features that determine its structural patterns [Fraser 1976; Bolinger 1971; Pelli 1976; Shaked 1994], ., look for has syntactic subcategorization and semantic features similar to those of search; carry on shares lexical features with continue. Such lexical features can be represented in the PV lexicon in the same way as those for single-word verbs, but a parser can only use them when the PV is identified. Problems like PVs are regarded as ‘a pain in the neck for NLP’ [Sag et al. 2002]. .
