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How an idea germinates into a projext or the intransitive resultative construction with Entity-Specific change-of-state verbs

2014

[EN] This study discusses how seven of Levin’s (1993) entity-specific change-of-state verbs (i.e. bloom, blossom, flower, germinate, sprout, swell, and blister) are subsumed into the intransitive resultative construction by highlighting and making use of the external and internal constraints proposed by the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM; Ruiz de Mendoza and Mairal 2007). External constraints refer to cognitive mechanisms such as high-level metaphor and/or metonymy whereas internal constraints are concerned with the encyclopedic and event structure makeup of verbs. The Internal Variable Conditioning constraint is at work when the information encapsulated by a predicate determines the cho…

Linguistics and LanguageMetonymyMetaphorKeywords: entity-specific change-of-state verbsmedia_common.quotation_subjectVerbLanguage and LinguisticsPredicate (grammar)Linguisticsthe Internal Variable Conditioning constraint.lcsh:Philology. LinguisticsIntransitive resultative constructionEvent structureThe Internal Variable Conditioning constraintlcsh:P1-1091ResultativeInternal variableEntity-specific change-of-state verbsLexical Constructional ModelExternal and internal constraintsmedia_commonMathematicsLlenguatge i llengües
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Lexical classes and constructions: an analysis of the constructional realization of entity-specific change-of-state English verbs

2013

This study analyzes a so far neglected part of the constructional behavior of Levin's (1993) entity-specific change-of-state verbs. More specifically, we discuss the integration of verbs from this lexical class into the intransitive-resultative construction. We base our analysis on the Lexical Constructional Model or LCM (Ruiz de Mendoza and Mairal 2008, 2011; Mairal and Ruiz de Mendoza 2009; Ruiz de Mendoza 2013). It will be shown that the internal and external constraints postulated by the LCM constitute useful explanatory and analytical tools for the fusion processes between these verbs and the intransitive-resultative construction. We also propose a classification of these verbs on the …

Llengües modernesentity-specific change-of-state verbs; Lexical Constructional Model; intransitive-resultative construction; internal and external constraints; metaphoric amalgamsExplorations in English Language and Linguistics
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