The grammar of causatives and the conceptual structure of events

Verhagen, Arie; Kemmer, Suzanne

doi:10.1515/cogl.1994.5.2.115

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“…Other generalizations about how form and meaning tend to be linked across languages can be explained by appeal to iconic and analogical processes65–70 and to Gricean pragmatic generalizations 71. Constraints on long‐distance dependency constructions (traditional ‘island constraints’) appear to yield to processing explanations that take into account the function of the constructions involved 72–76.…”

Section: Language Universalsmentioning

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Construction grammar

Goldberg

Suttle

2010

WIRES Cognitive Science

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Construction grammar, or constructionist approaches more generally, emphasize the function of particular constructions as well as their formal properties. Constructions vary in their degree of generality, from words to idioms to more abstract patterns such as argument structure constructions, topicalization, and passive. There is also no division drawn between semantics and pragmatics, as all conventional aspects of constructions are encoded within the constructions themselves; thus constructions can include information about information structure, register, or genre. The majority of constructionist approaches are also usage based, in that they recognize that we retain a great deal of item-specific information. An important desideratum of constructionist approaches is that they interface naturally with what we know about language acquisition, language change, and language typology. In order to capture generalizations within a given language, constructions are related via an inheritance hierarchy, with more abstract, productive constructions being directly related to their more idiomatic instantiations. The functions of particular constructions as well as domain general cognitive and social cognition are appealed in order to capture cross-linguistically valid typological generalizations. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. For further resources related to this article, please visit the WIREs website.

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Section: Language Universalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Construction grammar

Goldberg

Suttle

2010

WIRES Cognitive Science

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“…Most of the corpus-based studies of these constructions (Kemmer and Verhagen 1994;Verhagen and Kemmer 1997;Stukker 2005) suggest that doen is an auxiliary that expresses direct causation. It is used to categorise causative situations in which the Causer uses its own energy to produce the caused event encoded by the Effected Predicate.…”

Section: Dutch Causative Constructionsmentioning

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2. A radically data-driven Construction Grammar: Experiments with Dutch causative constructions

Levshina¹,

Heylen²

2014

Extending the Scope of Construction Grammar

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“…El objetivo del apartado siguiente es investigar 6 Cf. por ejemplo Kemmer / Verhagen (1994) y Verhagen / Kemmer (1997) para un estudio similar en neerlandés y en alemán. Los autores afirman que el grado de causación directa v. indirecta está relacionado con el grado de topicalidad y de afectación del causado, que obedece a la jerarquía siguiente: acusativo > dativo >> instrumental.…”

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Acusativo y dativo en la construcción factitiva

Enghels

2012

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Acusativo y dativo en la construcción factitiva: hacia un replanteamiento en términos multifactoriales KeywordsSpanish, infinitive, causative verbs, polysemy, case marking AbstractMost investigations of Romance factitive constructions study the causative verb hacer ("to make") and pay little attention to related verbs such as dejar ("to let"). This article seeks to fill up this gap by contrasting the syntax of positive and negative causation, and particularly focuses on the case marking of the causee. The analysis of a Spanish corpus allows us to examine previous accounts of case marking, namely the hypothesis of incorporation and the related "Stratal Uniqueness Law", and the theory of direct vs. indirect causation. The second part is dedicated to the question whether the cognitive-semantic characteristics of the causation models have any effect on its syntax. Finally, a multifactorial analysis, taking into account the degree of dynamicity of the constituents and the accusative or dative case of the causee, demonstrates that variation of pattern mainly depends on the rich polysemy of the main verbs.

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The grammar of causatives and the conceptual structure of events

Cited by 150 publications

References 24 publications

Construction grammar

Construction grammar

2. A radically data-driven Construction Grammar: Experiments with Dutch causative constructions

Acusativo y dativo en la construcción factitiva

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