Strong resultative constructions in Romance between usage and norm

Romagno, Domenica

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“…walk into the room, hammer flat ). However, as will be shown in Section 2, scholars have become aware of the relevance of RCs in Romance as well (for Italian: Napoli 1992; Riccio 2018; Romagno 2020; for French: Riegel 1996; Legendre 1997; Muller 2000; Buchard 2006; Dagnac 2009, Lauwers et al. 2018; for Spanish: Bosque 1990; Masullo & Demonte 1999; Rodríguez Arrizabalaga 2014, 2016; Enghels & Lauwers (in press); for Romanian: Farkas 2009, 2011, 2015; Baciu 2014) – although these constructions are less productive and possibly limited to specific verb classes and morpho‐syntactic categories.…”

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Verb Classes in the Resultative Construction in Germanic and Romance Languages

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2022

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The present paper consists of a contrastive corpus-based study of the (analytical) Resultative Construction (henceforth, RC) in culinary contexts (e.g. cut thin, whisk to a foam, roll into a ball). Four languages are investigated: two Germanic (i.e. Dutch and English) and two Romance languages (i.e. French and Spanish). Based on a sample of 1000 occurrences of the RC (by language) retrieved from our home-made comparable corpus of cooking recipes, this study shows that: (i) both 'strong' (i.e. aspect-shifting) and 'weak' (i.e. non-aspect-shifting) RCs are possible in the four languages studied (Washio 1997)although the latter is said to be the only pattern available in Romance (Fontanals 2000; Mateu 2012; Bigolin & Ausensi 2021); (ii) a greater diversity of verbs occurs in the RC in Dutch and English, which suggests that the construction is still more productive in Germanic languages, even in culinary contexts; and (iii) in Romance, the productivity of the verb slot in the RC depends to a large degree on whether the resultative predicate can be encoded by a prepositional phrase.Dans cet article, nous pr esentons les r esultats d'une etude de corpus qui porte sur la Construction R esultative (analytique) (ou CR) apparaissant dans le contexte culinaire (ex.etaler la pâte tr es fine, battre les blancs en neige, rouler la pâte en boule). Quatre langues sont etudi ees: deux langues germaniques (i.e. le n eerlandais et l'anglais) et deux langues romanes (i.e. le franc ßais et l'espagnol). Sur la base d'un echantillon de 1000 occurrences de la CR (par langue), collect ees a partir de notre corpus de recettes de cuisine, nous d emontrons que (i) les CRs dites 'fortes' et 'faibles' (Washio 1997) sont possibles dans les quatre langues etudi eesmême si les langues romanes sont tr es souvent d ecrites comme se limitant au type 'faible' (Mateu 2000(Mateu , 2012; Bigolin & Ausensi 2021); (ii) la CR des langues germaniques accepte une plus grande diversit e de verbes, sugg erant que la construction est plus productive dans ces langues, et ceci même dans le domaine culinaire; enfin (iii) dans les langues romanes, la productivit e de la CR est fortement influenc ee par la cat egorie morphosyntaxique du pr edicat r esultatif, selon qu'il s'agisse d'un adjectif ou d'un groupe pr epositionnel.

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Verb Classes in the Resultative Construction in Germanic and Romance Languages

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2022

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Resultative secondary predicates in cooking recipes: an empirical study of Germanic and Romance languages

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2024

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The present article provides a contrastive corpus-based analysis of resultative secondary predicates in recipe contexts. Two Germanic languages (Dutch and English) and two Romance languages (French and Spanish) are investigated. Based on a sample of 4,000 (i.e., 1,000 per language) resultative constructions (RCs) retrieved from a tailor-made corpus of cooking recipes, this study sheds new light on Talmy’s typological dichotomy between satellite-framed and verb-framed languages. Specifically, it is shown that (i) Adjectival phrases (APs) are not totally excluded from Romance RCs but their occurrence is restricted in several ways. (ii) Prepositional phrases (PPs) can be headed by a whole range of prepositions (or ‘result markers’) which exhibit important differences in terms of semantic properties, token frequency, and distribution across verb classes: ‘weak’ result markers, which mainly consist of locative prepositions (viz. in ‘in’ in Dutch, in in English and en ‘in’ and a ‘to’ in Spanish) occur almost exclusively in RCs that contain achievements, which are argued to be less dynamic, depictive-like instances of the construction. By contrast, ‘strong’ result markers (e.g., tot ‘to/until’ in Dutch, to, into, and until in English, en ‘in’ in French and a punto de ‘to point of’ in Spanish) combine with various aspectual classes, including activities, and may therefore give rise to ‘strong’ (i.e., aspect-shifting) RCs. Finally, (iii) although they are both ‘satellite-framed’ languages, Dutch and English impose different restrictions on the formal encoding of APs, which are very often preceded by the preposition until in English as a result of discourse and internal language factors.

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Strong resultative constructions in Romance between usage and norm

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Verb Classes in the Resultative Construction in Germanic and Romance Languages

Verb Classes in the Resultative Construction in Germanic and Romance Languages

Resultative secondary predicates in cooking recipes: an empirical study of Germanic and Romance languages

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