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Title |
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8. An antipassive interpretation of the English “conative alternation”: Semantic and discourse-pragmatic dimensions - Morphosyntactic Alternations in English |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Pilar Guerrero Medina; University of Córdoba; Spain |
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Linguistics |
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linguistics; discourse analysis; pragmatics; syntax |
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Subject classification |
P121-149 Science of language (Linguistics); P101-410 Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar |
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Description |
Abstract |
In this chapter Pilar Guerrero Medina aims to explore the connection between the English conative construction and what is regarded as an “antipassive” in the functional-typological literature, drawing on corpus data with a sample of verbs from Levin’s (1993) semantic classes of Contact by Impact, Breaking, Cutting and Ingesting. It is here argued that a constructionist approach of the English conative alternation along the lines of Goldberg (1995) is in principle superior to a lexicallybased one. However, in the author’s view, the Goldbergian approach still provides an incomplete picture of the problem, and she furthers claims that the semantic and discourse-pragmatic properties of the conative construction would be better captured under Cooreman’s (1994) definition of the antipassive. |
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Publisher |
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Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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01-Sep-2011 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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PDF |
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https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/20279 |
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Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.20279 |
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Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; Morphosyntactic Alternations in English |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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global |
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Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |