A Constructional Approach to Resultatives
Hans C. Boas
Providing a unified solution within the frameworks of Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics, Hans Boas develops an account of resultative constructions in English by grouping them in two classes: conventionalized and non-conventionalized. The usage-based model used here proposes that each particular sense of a verb constitutes a conventionalized mini-construction, which is crucial information for the licensing of arguments. In contrast, verbs in non-conventionalized resultative constructions can acquire a novel meaning and thereby a new syntactic frame. English and German resultatives are compared to illustrate the distinct lexical polysemy networks of English and German verbs.
Година:
2003
Издание:
1
Издателство:
CSLI Publications
Език:
english
Страници:
416
ISBN 10:
157586407X
ISBN 13:
9781575864075
Серия:
Stanford Monographs in Linguistics
Файл:
PDF, 26.07 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2003