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- Title
Accounting for the Alternating Behaviour of Location Arguments from the Perspective of Role and Reference Grammar.
- Authors
RODRÍGUEZ-JUÁREZ, CAROLINA
- Abstract
This paper presents a description of the alternations in which the location argument participates in English and accounts for its various realizations from the point of view of Role and Reference Grammar. The analysis of the multiple alternating behaviour of the location argument in various transitive and intransitive alternations in English is mostly related to marked macrorole assignment typically to undergoer, such as in He loaded the truck with hay--as compared with the kernel construction He loaded hay on the truck--but also to actor as, for instance, in the location subject alternation, in which the location argument occupies the subject position, e.g., The bag carries all your belongings, a construction which implies the loss of one of the arguments in the kernel structure, You can carry all your belongings in the bag. Additionally, the syntactic behaviour of location arguments in marked constructions very often conveys a change of Aktionsart ascription with respect to the kernel construction, as in the swarm alternation in which the predicate in the kernel construction is analysed as an activity, e.g., Bees swarmed in the garden, whereas in the marked construction it changes to a state, The garden is swarming with bees. This investigation also provides an analysis of the with-phrase that is often encoded in the marked constructions where the location argument is codified as a core argument.
- Subjects
ENGLISH language; GENERATIVE English grammar; NOUN phrases (Grammar); SYNTAX (Grammar); SYNTAX in the English language; RELATIONAL grammar; DEPENDENCY grammar
- Publication
Atlantis (0210-6124), 2017, Vol 39, Issue 2, p169
- ISSN
0210-6124
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.28914/ATLANTIS-2017-39.2.09