Too female to be ruthless and too pregnant to argue: Semantic conflict and resolution in the [too ADJ to V]-construction

Kim Ebensgaard Jensen

Too female to be ruthless and too pregnant to argue: Semantic conflict and resolution in the [too ADJ to V]-construction

Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies

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Abstract

Taking usage-based construction grammar as its theoretical framework, this paper addresses the interplay between construal operations and semantic conflict resolution in anomalous instances of the relatively unexplored English [too ADJ to V]-construction. Drawing on an open-ended questionnaire analysis in which native-speaker respondents offer their readings of anomalous instances of the construction, the paper discusses strategies of semantic construction-lexeme conflict resolution with a view to inferring construal operations involved therein.

Original language	English
Journal	Suvremena Lingvistika
Volume	40
Issue number	77
Pages (from-to)	1-26
ISSN	0586-0296
Publication status	Published - Jul 2014

Keywords

Faculty of Humanities
adjectives
adjectival constructions
construction grammar
cognitive linguistics
construction-lexeme interaction
scalar semantics
construal
meaning construction
image schemata
qualitative analysis
constructional semantics
cognitive semantics
semantic conflict
semantic shift
semantic resolution
constructional anomalies
construal operations
semantic conflict resolution
scalar adjectival constructions
English language
American English

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Jensen, K. E. (2014). Too female to be ruthless and too pregnant to argue: Semantic conflict and resolution in the [too ADJ to V]-construction. Suvremena Lingvistika, 40(77), 1-26. http://suvlin.ffzg.hr/index.php/en/browse-archive/38-vol-40-no-77-06-2014/480-too-female-to-be-ruthless-and-too-pregnant-to-argue-semantic-conflict-and-resolution-in-the-too-adj-to-v-construction

Jensen, KE 2014, 'Too female to be ruthless and too pregnant to argue: Semantic conflict and resolution in the [too ADJ to V]-construction', Suvremena Lingvistika, vol. 40, no. 77, pp. 1-26. <http://suvlin.ffzg.hr/index.php/en/browse-archive/38-vol-40-no-77-06-2014/480-too-female-to-be-ruthless-and-too-pregnant-to-argue-semantic-conflict-and-resolution-in-the-too-adj-to-v-construction>

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Too female to be ruthless and too pregnant to argue: Semantic conflict and resolution in the [too ADJ to V]-construction

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