Ditransitive verbs and the ditransitive construction: a diachronic perspective
This paper argues for the adoption of a construction-based perspective to the investigation of diachronic shifts in valency, which is a hitherto largely neglected topic in the framework of valency grammar. On the basis of a comparison of the set of verbs attested in the double object argument structure pattern in a corpus of 18th-century British English with the construction's present-day semantic range, I will distinguish between three kinds of valency shifts. It will be shown that the semantic ranges of schematic argument structure constructions are subject to diachronic change, and that the... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | journalarticle |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2011 |
Schlagwörter: | Languages and Literatures / ENGLISH / PREEMPTION / SEMANTICS / OBJECT / DUTCH / construction grammar / language change / ditransitive construction / constructional semantics |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27063118 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/2963288 |