A Constructional Approach to Resultatives
Boas and Hans Christian 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.
Book of the Stanford Monographs in Linguistics series
- ISBN: 1575864088
- ISBN-13: 9781575864082
- Authors : Boas and Hans Christian Boas
- Language : English
- Format: Paperback
- Publication Date: 2/1/2003
- Publisher Imprint: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
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