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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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