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A Constructional Approach to Resultatives

A Constructional Approach to Resultatives

Boas, Hans C.

Paperback

Series: Stanford Monographs in Linguistics

Grammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 1575864088
ISBN13: 9781575864082
Publisher: Ctr For Study Of Lang & Info
Published: Feb 1 2003
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.04 Depth: 9.12
Language: English
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.

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