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- Title
Constructional creativity in a Romance language: Valency coercion in Italian.
- Authors
Busso, Lucia
- Abstract
The present contribution summarizes findings on the understudied area of Italian valency coercion – i. e. the interaction of verbs and argument structure constructions in novel and creative ways – from four different studies. It highlights their innovative character, theoretical significance, and crosslinguistic implications for Construction Grammar. The paper suggests that valency coercion resolution involve different phenomena, such as distributional properties of constructions and compatibility between verb and construction. Sociolinguistic factors such as age and diatopic variables are also suggested to be relevant.
- Subjects
VALENCE (Chemistry); ROMANCE languages; CONSTRUCTION grammar; VERBS
- Publication
Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 2020, Vol 34, Issue 1, p17
- ISSN
0774-5141
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/bjl.00031.bus