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Abstract
Drawing on usage-based cognitively oriented construction grammar, this paper investigates the patterns of coattraction of items that appear in the two VP positions (the VP in the matrix clause, and the VP in the infinitive subordinate clause) in the English accusative-with-bare-infinitive construction. The main methodological framework is that of covarying collexeme analysis, which, through statistical corpus analysis, allows for the analyst to address the semantics of a construction. Using this method on data from the BNC, the ultimate purpose of the paper is to address the underlying semantic relations of English accusatives-with-bare-infinitives through the relations of semantic coherence between the two VPs.
Original language | English |
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Journal | RASK – International journal of language and communication |
Volume | 38 |
Pages (from-to) | 161-176 |
ISSN | 0909-8976 |
Publication status | Published - 30 Aug 2013 |
Keywords
- usage-based language models
- usage-based linguistics
- usage-based model
- corpus linguistics
- construction grammar
- semantic coherence
- principle of semantic coherence
- principle of semantic compatibility
- collostruction
- covarying collexeme
- cognitive linguistics
- image schemas
- image schemata
- verb-construction attraction
- verb
- verb semantics
- syntax
- grammar
- English language
- English grammar
- matrix verb
- infinitive verb
- cross-event ralations
- cross-event relating construction
- accusative with infinitive
- accusative
- infinitive
- bare infinitive
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