Verb disposition in argument structure alternations: a corpus study of the dative alternation in Dutch

On the Brink of-Noun vs. On the Verge of-Noun: a Distinctive-Collexeme Analysis

“…In recent years, the method has been applied to various near-synonyms and alternations from several languages (see Colleman 2009;Desagulier 2014;Wiliński 2016;Bernolet and Colleman 2016, to mention a few studies). Desagulier (2014), for example, attempted to uncover semantic aspects of the conceptual structure of four English moderators and shed new light on the use of degree modifiers, whereas Bernolet and Colleman (2016) conducted a sensebased distinctive collexeme analysis of Dutch dative alternating verbs that indicated that distinct senses of the same verb may display different alternation biases.…”

“…This paper adopts the distinctive collexeme analysis, a corpus-based method that aims to determine lexemes that occur significantly more frequently with one construction than with another: in other words, to discover subtle distributional variations between two semantically or functionally near-equivalent constructions. Thus far, this method has been applied to various grammatical alternations, including the dative alternation in Dutch (Colleman 2009) and the variation between the go-V and go-and-v constructions in English (Wulff 2006), to give but two examples. However, no study has been found that attempted to contrast two semantically related constructions such as the on the brink of-noun construction and the on the verge of -noun construction in their respective collocational preferences.…”

Over lexicale voorkeuren in de alternantie tussen de "skoon bysin" en de "dat-bysin": Een distinctieve collexeemanalyse

“…doi.10.17159/2224-7912/2016/v56n1a8 (i) in het Nederlands bij de transitieve werkwoorden als pakweg bezorgen en gunnen de kans op het gebruik van de dubbelobjectconstructie met een nominaal indirect object veel groter dan die op het gebruik van de constructie met een prepositioneel indirect object, terwijl dat bij werkwoorden als pakweg afstaan en verkopen precies andersom is (Colleman 2009);…”

Referential Effects on the Expression of Three-Participant Events across Languages - An Introduction in Memory of Anna Siewierska

“…In other words, the constructional preferences of specific lexical verbs may be (partially) caused by the referential properties of the participants that these verbs tend to cooccur with. In a recent attempt to assess this problem, De Swart, Van Bergen and Van Lier (2011) conducted a production experiment in Dutch, involving alternating verbs with different constructional preferences (based on Colleman's (2006Colleman's ( , 2009 corpus data), combined with identical scenarios, i.e. with the same sets of referential T/G-types.…”