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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…
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 …
Unaccusativity
2012
Abstract My research is an attempt at suggesting a cross-linguistically valid definition of verbs characterized by unagentivity and affectedness such as “burn”, “die”, “sink”, “fall”, “slide”, etc., which according to the present analysis constitute the semantic core of unaccusativity. Both synchronic and diachronic approaches are followed. Various definitions have been attributed to these verbs (eventives, anticausatives, transformatives, inchoatives, decausatives). Although Perlmutter & Postal (1984) classify unaccusative verbs on the basis of their syntactic behavior, they also argue that the syntactic expression of arguments is always determinable on the basis of the meaning of the verb…
Constructions verbales intransitives avec préposition et grammaires françaises pour apprenants hispanophones (1970-2016)
2016
Les constructions verbales intransitives avec préposition posent des problèmes aux apprenants hispanophones, notamment dans le cas des verbes qui admettent en espagnol une construction semblable, mais avec une préposition différente. La description du corpus délimité est centrée sur dix grammaires françaises parues en Espagne de 1970 jusqu’à nos jours. L’apparition de ces constructions dans ces grammaires a été étudiée afin d’envisager d’autres manières d’expliquer ce phénomène en tenant compte du contexte d’apprentissage de l’apprenant hispanophone.
Darbības vārdu savienojumi ar postpozīcijām veidi rakstos par jaunuzņēmumiem
2019
Ziņu portāli ir vieni no izplatītākajiem informācijas avotiem, kuri informē par jaunākajām aktualitātēm pasaulē. Attiecīgi, ir ļoti svarīgi apzināt valodas lietojumu un tās atspoguļojumu ziņu rakstos. Tādēļ šī pētījuma mērķis ir pētīt valodas lietojumu rakstos par jaunuzņēmumiem, precīzāk, darbības vārdus ar postpozīcijām un to semantiskās un sintaktiskās īpašības. Lai sasniegtu mērķi, pētījums balstās uz 30 ziņu rakstiem par jaunuzņēmumiem, pēta 220 darbības vārdus ar pospozīcijām un to pielietojumu. Teorētiskā literatūra atklāja ka darbības vārdi ar postpozīcijām ir komplicēti to pārnesto nozīmju un gramatisko īpašību dēļ. Pētījuma rezultāti atspoguļo visbiežāk izmantotos darbības vārdus …
Fixed and NOT free : Revisiting the order of the main clausal constituents in Finnish Sign Language from a corpus perspective
2017
This squib investigates the order of the main clausal constituents in verbal-centered clauses in Finnish Sign Language (FinSL). With the help of the frequencies calculated from narratives included in the recently compiled FinSL corpus, the study suggests that the order of the main constituents in FinSL clauses is more fixed than has been claimed in a previous study. With intransitive and transitive clauses with a Type 1 or Type 2 verbal predicate, the study shows that their internal structures strongly favor the orders SV and AVP, respectively, although both S/A and P core arguments are often left lexically unexpressed. Concerning Type 3 verbal predicates, the study shows that they most typ…