Digging Deeper. The directional alternation in Dutch

peer reviewed ; This study presents a systematic, data-intensive way to uncover semantics differences between constructions by iteratively digging deeper into corpus variation. The case study at hand is the directional alternation in Dutch. This directional alternation can be found with a number of verbs, which may realize their arguments in both the Strictly Transitive Construction (STC) and the Intransitive Motion Construction, as in (1) vs. (2) (Goldberg 1995: 3–4, 117–119). (1) Deze schutter heeft heel bewust slachtoffers gezocht met een andere huidskleur. This rifleman has very deliberate... Mehr ...