TY - JOUR
T1 - Revisiting Hudson’s (1992) OO = O2 hypothesis
T2 - A usage-based variationist approach to the English ditransitive construction
AU - Shibuya, Yoshikata
AU - Jensen, Kim Ebensgaard
PY - 2018/1/2
Y1 - 2018/1/2
N2 - In an important paper on the English “double-object”, or ditransitive, construction, Richard Hudson proposes a hypothesis that conflates the ditransitive direct object, or O2, and the monotransitive direct object, or OO, into the same syntactic functional category. While making important departures from a number of unfortunate assumptions within mainstream formal theories of linguistics at the time, the OO = O2 hypothesis itself is problematic in the perspective of contemporary cognitive linguistics. This paper addresses the hypothesis from the perspective of usage-based construction grammar. Applying simple collexeme analysis and multifactorial heatmap analysis to instances of OOs and O2s in ICE-GB, this paper shows that the usage-patterns of both are far too complex, displaying cross-register variation, for the OO = O2 hypothesis to be tenable. The findings provide support for a usage-based variationist account in defining syntactic functional categories.
AB - In an important paper on the English “double-object”, or ditransitive, construction, Richard Hudson proposes a hypothesis that conflates the ditransitive direct object, or O2, and the monotransitive direct object, or OO, into the same syntactic functional category. While making important departures from a number of unfortunate assumptions within mainstream formal theories of linguistics at the time, the OO = O2 hypothesis itself is problematic in the perspective of contemporary cognitive linguistics. This paper addresses the hypothesis from the perspective of usage-based construction grammar. Applying simple collexeme analysis and multifactorial heatmap analysis to instances of OOs and O2s in ICE-GB, this paper shows that the usage-patterns of both are far too complex, displaying cross-register variation, for the OO = O2 hypothesis to be tenable. The findings provide support for a usage-based variationist account in defining syntactic functional categories.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - construction grammar
KW - cognitive linguistics
KW - corpus linguistics
KW - ditransitive
KW - constructional variation
KW - direct objects
KW - usage-based grammar
KW - usage-based linguistics
KW - ICE-GB
KW - language register
KW - cognitive sociolinguistics
U2 - 10.1080/03740463.2017.1333873
DO - 10.1080/03740463.2017.1333873
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0374-0463
VL - 50
SP - 73
EP - 101
JO - Acta Linguistica Hafniensia
JF - Acta Linguistica Hafniensia
IS - 1
ER -