ISBN: 9789027275660

Fusing insights from cognitive grammar, systemic-functional grammar and Government & Binding, the present work elaborates and refines Davidse’s view that the English grammar of lexical ca… Mehr…

Fusing insights from cognitive grammar, systemic-functional grammar and Government & Binding, the present work elaborates and refines Davidse’s view that the English grammar of lexical causatives is governed by the transitive and ergative paradigms, two distinct models of causation (Davidse 1991, 1992). However, on the basis of extensive synchronic and diachronic data on verbs of killing (e.g. kill, execute, choke or drown), it is shown that ‘transitivity’ and ‘ergativity’ are not absolute but prototypical characteristics of verbs which may be overruled by the semantics of the construal in which they occur. The variable transitive or ergative character of the verbs reveals the complex interaction between the semantics of the construction and that of the verb. The diachronic analyses further illustrate how in the course of time verbs may change their paradigmatic properties, either temporarily (e.g. the ergativization of strangle, throttle and smother) or permanently (e.g. the ‘causativization’ of starve or the partial transitivization of abort). The analyses show that these changes are semantically well-motivated and further illustrate the cognitive reality of the two causative models. The work explores the experiential basis of the prototypical paradigmatic behaviour of verbs (e.g. the ergative predilection of the SUFFOCATE verbs). In addition, it attempts to shed more light on the semantics and restrictions of certain constructions, such as the medio-passive, the derivation of adjectives in –able, or the derivation of agentive nominals in –er.; PDF; Reference & Languages > linguistics, World Scientific Publishing Company<

ISBN: 9789027275660

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ISBN: 9789027275660

*Lexical Perspectives on Transitivity and Ergativity* - Causative constructions in English / pdf eBook für 148.99 € / Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen Medien > Bücher ne… Mehr…

*Lexical Perspectives on Transitivity and Ergativity* - Causative constructions in English / pdf eBook für 148.99 € / Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen Medien > Bücher nein eBook als pdf eBooks > Belletristik > Erzählungen, John Benjamins Publishing Company<

ISBN: 9789027275660

Lexical Perspectives on Transitivity and Ergativity - Causative constructions in English: ab 149.99 € eBooks > Belletristik > Erzählungen John Benjamins Publishing Company eBook als pdf, … Mehr…

Lexical Perspectives on Transitivity and Ergativity - Causative constructions in English: ab 149.99 € eBooks > Belletristik > Erzählungen John Benjamins Publishing Company eBook als pdf, John Benjamins Publishing Company<

1998, ISBN: 9789027275660

Causative constructions in English, eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), [PU: John Benjamins Publishing Company], John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1998