The Evaluative Binominal Construction in Dutch, English, French and Italian. A cross-linguistic corpus study

This contribution aims at analyzing the Evaluative Binominal Construction (EBC) (e.g., EN a hell of a day), represented as the constructional schema [DET1 N1 PREP DET2 N2], which connects an N1 expressing an evaluative quality and an N2 indicating the entity to which the quality is attributed. The EBC has already been studied in several languages such as English (Aarts 1994, 1998), Dutch (Verhagen 2005, Van Goethem 2023) and French (Larrivée 1994), but cross-linguistic studies (such as Piunno 2022 for Romance languages) are scarce and often not corpus-based (e.g., Foolen 2004). The main objec... Mehr ...