Getting at the meaning of the English at-construction: the case of a constructional split
On the basis of a corpus-based study of the at-frame in English, this article evaluates Goldberg’s (2006) hypothesis that constructional meaning originates with the meaning of the verbs frequently occurring in a given syntactic pattern. Our study reveals that for the at-construction, this hypothesis...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:cognitextes_331 https://doi.org/10.4000/cognitextes.331 urn:doi:10.4000/cognitextes.331 en https://journals.openedition.org/cognitextes/331 2012-05-14T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/e4z6 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Getting at the meaning of the English at-construction: the case of a constructional split CogniTextes Association française de linguistique cognitive info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1958-5322 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cognitextes Perek, Florent Lemmens, Maarten synonymie constructionelle grammaire de constructions construction conative sens constructionnel constructional synonymy construction grammar constructional meaning conative construction On the basis of a corpus-based study of the at-frame in English, this article evaluates Goldberg’s (2006) hypothesis that constructional meaning originates with the meaning of the verbs frequently occurring in a given syntactic pattern. Our study reveals that for the at-construction, this hypothesis does not hold: the constructional meaning is poorly reflected by the distribution of the verbs, and is only arrived at by attending to specific aspects of the semantics of the verbs occurring in it. This suggests that a more complex learning strategy than the simple import of lexical semantics into constructions is needed, especially to account for the emergence of constructions whose meaning is not lexicalized by any verb in the language. A partir d’une étude sur corpus de la construction en at en anglais, cet article évalue l’hypothèse de Goldberg (2006) selon laquelle le sens des constructions syntaxiques provient du sens des verbes fréquemment rencontrés dans un motif syntaxique donné. Notre étude révèle que cette hypothèse ne s’applique pas à la construction en at: la distribution verbale ne reflète que médiocrement le sens constructionnel, qui n’est déduisible qu’en retenant certains aspects spécifiques de la sémantique des verbes observés dans la construction. Cela suggère qu’une stratégie d’acquisition plus complexe que la simple importation de sémantique lexicale dans les constructions est requise, en particulier pour expliquer l’émergence de constructions dont le sens n’est lexicalisé par aucun verbe de la langue. |
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On the basis of a corpus-based study of the at-frame in English, this article evaluates Goldberg’s (2006) hypothesis that constructional meaning originates with the meaning of the verbs frequently occurring in a given syntactic pattern. Our study reveals that for the at-construction, this hypothesis does not hold: the constructional meaning is poorly reflected by the distribution of the verbs, and is only arrived at by attending to specific aspects of the semantics of the verbs occurring in it. This suggests that a more complex learning strategy than the simple import of lexical semantics into constructions is needed, especially to account for the emergence of constructions whose meaning is not lexicalized by any verb in the language. |
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Perek, Florent Lemmens, Maarten |
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Perek, Florent Lemmens, Maarten |
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Getting at the meaning of the English at-construction: the case of a constructional split |
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