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Choosing an event description

Choosing an event description : What a PropBank study reveals about the contrast between light verb constructions and counterpart synthetic verbs

 Bonial, Claire
 Cambridge University Press, 2020
 United States : p. 577 - 600 English ISSN: 00222267
Tiếng AnhEnglishĐộng từ
Tác giả CN Bonial, Claire
Nhan đề Choosing an event description : What a PropBank study reveals about the contrast between light verb constructions and counterpart synthetic verbs / Claire Bonial, Kimberly A. Pollard
Thông tin xuất bản United States : Cambridge University Press, 2020
Mô tả vật lý p. 577 - 600
Tóm tắt Light verb constructions (LVCs) in English and Romance languages are somewhat unique crosslinguistically because LVCs in these languages tend to have semantically similar synthetic verb counterparts (Zarco 1999): e.g. make an appearance and appear. This runs contrary to assumptions in linguistic theories that two competing forms are rarely maintained in a language unless they serve distinct purposes (e.g. Grice 1975). Why do English LVCs exist alongside counterpart synthetic verbs, especially given that synthetic verbs are arguably the more efficient form (Zipf 1949)? It has been proposed that LVCs serve an aspectual function (Prince 1972, Live 1973, Wierzbicka 1982, Tanabe 1999, Butt & Geuder 2001), as there are telic LVC counterparts (e.g. have a thought) of atelic verbs (e.g. think). This proposal has been difficult to evaluate without a large-scale resource providing a markup of both LVCs and counterpart verbs. Addressing this gap in resources, the present research describes the development of guidelines for LVC annotation in the English PropBank (Bonial & Palmer 2015). The focus of this article is the subsequent analysis of these annotations, aimed at uncovering corpus evidence of what contexts call for the use of an LVC over a synthetic verb. The corpus study shows that the general function of LVCs is not an aspectual one and provides distributional evidence that the ease and variety with which LVCs can be modified is the general motivating factor for the use of an LVC.
Thuật ngữ chủ đề Tiếng Anh-Động từ
Thuật ngữ chủ đề English-Verb
Từ khóa tự do Tiếng Anh
Từ khóa tự do Động từ
Tác giả(bs) CN Pollard, Kimberly A.
Nguồn trích Journal of Linguistics- Volume 56 , Issue 3, 01 August 2020
Tệp tin điện tử https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-linguistics/article/abs/choosing-an-event-description-what-a-propbank-study-reveals-about-the-contrast-between-light-verb-constructions-and-counterpart-synthetic-verbs/48D9D399264D2BE3C9AEB33A43653448
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