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Fusing insights from cognitive grammar, systemic-functional grammar and Government & Binding, the present work elaborates and refines DavidseвЂTMs view that the English grammar of lexical causatives is governed by the transitive and ergative paradigms, two distinct models of causation (Davidse 1991, 1992). However, on the basis of extensive synchronic and diachronic data on verbs of killing (e.g. __kill, execute, choke__ or __drown__), it is shown that вЂtransitivityвЂTM and вЂergativityвЂTM are not absolute but prototypical characteristics of verbs which may be overruled by the semantics of the construal in which they occur. The variable transitive or ergative character of the verbs reveals the complex interaction between the semantics of the construction and that of the verb. The diachronic analyses further illustrate how in the course of time verbs may change their paradigmatic properties, either temporarily (e.g. the ergativization of __strangle, throttle__ and __smother__) or permanently (e.g. the вЂcausativizationвЂTM of __starve__ or the partial transitivization of __abort__). The analyses show that these changes are semantically well-motivated and further illustrate the
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- Author
- Maarten Lemmens; ProQuest (Firm)
- Publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781556198823
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Linguistics, Literary Fiction
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