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This paper is concerned with the description of the event structure and the meaning components that motivate the realization of the conative construction within some canonical Old English verb classes. In the same line as the latest proposals framed within the Lexical Constructional Model, this kind of description is intended to evidence the essential role of semantic features that are not necessarily realized in the syntax and thus help elucidate and comprehend lexical-constructional processes. Besides, this work seeks to establish adequate criteria to identify the conative construction and provides insights into the distribution of diathetic alternations associated to the conative construction in Old English. 5) a. Hrér mid sticcan óþ-ðaet hit cól síe. stir-with-spoon-till-it-cool-be 'stir it about with a spoon till it be cool' (7.476 c:\icame\oehels~1\colaece7; L. M. 3, 26; Lchdm. ii. 324, 1: 2, 51). b. Styre ðonne mid ðy sticcan ða buteran. stir-then-with-the-spoon-the-butter 'stir the butter with a spoon' (2.871 c:\icame\oehels~1\colacnu 98). c. ... þú mid sticcan etan wile, ... you-with-spoon-eat-want '... you want to eat with spoon' (Tech. ii. 123, 5). Considering that this kind of evidence is provided by appropriate corpus selection, we will assume that Old English contact-by-impact verbs in expressions like (2a) are subject to the restriction on instrument-implement realization as well as to the following generalizations and constraints this restriction entails within RRG (

This paper seeks to introduce an alternative perspective on the treatment of derivation within a functional framework like Role and Reference Grammar (RRG). By taking a functional perspective, we assume that word formation is a two-dimensional phenomenon involving both onomasiological and grammatical components. Furthermore, grammatical processes are considered to be semantically motivated. In order to properly account for the internal mechanisms involved in word formation, we formulate affixal lexical representations by using Lexical Templates as devised within the LCM (

Este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar las propiedades de algunos patrones semántico-sintácticos del español que se construyen con objetos preposicionales con a. el análisis se realiza en el marco del modelo Léxico Construccional y se sitúa específicamente en el primer nivel de este modelo, nivel de la Gramática nuclear (v. Ruiz de mendoza y mairal, 2008; mairal y Ruiz de mendoza, 2009). Se presta especial atención a la Subsunción entre plantillas léxicas y plantillas construccionales en este nivel, un conjunto de procesos que ocupa un lugar determinante en la (re)construcción del significado. A través de estos mecanismos se ponen de manifiesto diferencias y similitudes esenciales entre predicados que comparten el mismo tipo de patrón preposicional con a, tales como los verbos golpear y tocar. el análisis se apoya en los ejemplos extraídos a partir de varios córpora relevantes del español.