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T1 How conceptual structure impinges on constructional behavior: the case of "give" verbs
A1 Rosca, Andrea
A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
K1 Filología Inglesa
AB This article aims to cast light on the constructional behavior of nine of Levin�s (1993) give verbs, i.e. feed, lease, lend, loan, pay, peddle, rent, sell, and trade, in the ditransitive and dative constructions. This paper also proposes onomasiological hierarchies for these verbs on the basis of Faber and Mairal's (1999) lexematics-oriented taxonomies. My findings concur with Levin� (1993) and Faber and Mairal's (1999) hypothesis according to which the internal semantic parameters of a given verb function as predictors of that verb�s syntactic representations. In a hierarchy of predicates, the hyponyms display the same complementation patterns as their genus or superordinate predicate. Nevertheless, some verbs inherit partial semantic and syntactic behavior from more than one lexical class. A verb like trade inherits conceptual structure both from give (cf. They traded him to the Cubs) and exchange (e.g. Jason traded Thomas his laptop for a mobile phone).
SN 0210-9689
YR 2012
FD 2012
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17256
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17256
LA spa
NO ES: Revista de filología inglesa, 2012, N.33, pags.301-320
DS UVaDOC
RD 27-dic-2024