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- Title
A LEXICAL-CONSTRUCTIONAL APPROACH TO LIGHT AND SOUND EMISSION VERBS.
- Authors
Rosca, Andreea
- Abstract
This article presents an in-depth lexical-constructional analysis of the verb classes of light and sound emission verbs (e.g. flash, rumble). The present research studies the integration of these verbal classes in the causative-inchoative alternation, the resultative, the intransitive motion and the conative constructions. This study has been carried out from the perspective of the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM), as put forward by Ruiz de Mendoza and Mairal (2008, 2011). The LCM has developed a set of internal and external constraints that define the conditions for lexical-constructional integration or subsumption. Internal constraints are based on the compatibility of predicates and constructions, while external constraints involve cognitive mechanisms like high-level metaphor and metonymy. Thus, the use of the sound emission verb buzz in the causative construction (I buzzed the bell) is licensed by the high-level metonymy DIRECT/IMMEDIATE RESULT (i.e. SOUND PRODUCTION) FOR DIRECT/IMMEDIATE ACTION.
- Subjects
ENGLISH transitive verbs; CAUSATIVE (Linguistics); RESULTATIVE constructions (Grammar); LINGUISTIC analysis; CONSTRAINTS (Linguistics); METAPHOR; METONYMS
- Publication
Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada (John Benjamins Publishing Co.), 2011, Vol 24, p171
- ISSN
0213-2028
- Publication type
Article