TY - JOUR
T1 - Semantic coherence in English accusative-with-bare-infinitive constructions
AU - Jensen, Kim Ebensgaard
PY - 2013/8/30
Y1 - 2013/8/30
N2 - Drawing on usage-based cognitively oriented construction grammar, this paper investigates the patterns of coattraction of items that appear in the two VP positions (the VP in the matrix clause, and the VP in the infinitive subordinate clause) in the English accusative-with-bare-infinitive construction. The main methodological framework is that of covarying collexeme analysis, which, through statistical corpus analysis, allows for the analyst to address the semantics of a construction. Using this method on data from the BNC, the ultimate purpose of the paper is to address the underlying semantic relations of English accusatives-with-bare-infinitives through the relations of semantic coherence between the two VPs.
AB - Drawing on usage-based cognitively oriented construction grammar, this paper investigates the patterns of coattraction of items that appear in the two VP positions (the VP in the matrix clause, and the VP in the infinitive subordinate clause) in the English accusative-with-bare-infinitive construction. The main methodological framework is that of covarying collexeme analysis, which, through statistical corpus analysis, allows for the analyst to address the semantics of a construction. Using this method on data from the BNC, the ultimate purpose of the paper is to address the underlying semantic relations of English accusatives-with-bare-infinitives through the relations of semantic coherence between the two VPs.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - construction grammar
KW - cognitive linguistics
KW - corpus linguistics
KW - collostructional analysis
KW - covarying collexeme
KW - English language
KW - English grammar
KW - cognitive semantics
KW - infititives
KW - accusative-with-infinitive
KW - accusative-with-bare-infinitive
KW - cross-event relations
KW - cross-event relating constructions
KW - British National Corpus
KW - British English
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0909-8976
VL - 38
SP - 161
EP - 176
JO - RASK – International journal of language and communication
JF - RASK – International journal of language and communication
ER -