English Ditransitive Verbs: Aspects of Theory, Description and a Usage-based ModelBRILL, 29 sie 2016 - 304 The present book offers fresh insights into the description of ditransitive verbs and their complementation in present-day English. In the theory-oriented first part, a pluralist framework is developed on the basis of previous research that integrates ditransitive verbs as lexical items with both the entirety of their complementation patterns and the cognitive and semantic aspects of ditransitivity. This approach is combined with modern corpus-linguistic methodology in the present study, which draws on an exhaustive semi-automatic analysis of all patterns of ditransitive verbs in the British component of the International Corpus of English (ICE-GB) and also takes into account selected data from the British National Corpus (BNC). In the second part of the study, the complementation of ditransitive verbs (e.g. give, send) is analysed quantitatively and qualitatively. Special emphasis is placed here on the identification of significant principles of pattern selection, i.e. factors that lead language users to prefer specific patterns over other patterns in given contexts (e.g. weight, focus, pattern flow in text, lexical constraints). In the last part, some general aspects of a network-like, usage-based model of ditransitive verbs, their patterns and the relevant principles of pattern selection are sketched out, thus bridging the gap between the performance-related description of language use and a competence-related model of language cognition. |
Spis treści
1 Ditransitive verbs in previous research and in the present work | 1 |
2 Methodology | 70 |
ditransitive verbs in language use | 92 |
4 Aspects of a usagebased model of ditransitive verbs | 221 |
corpus coselection communicative competence | 260 |
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Appendix | 284 |
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abstract acting entity active actual affected entity analysis approach aspects associated basic by-agent cognitive communicative complementation concept considered construction context core corpus corpus-based corresponding described direct discussed distinction ditransitive complementation ditransitive verbs English event example explicit fact factors Figure focus formal frequency functional gave GIVE given grammar hand ICE-GB important indirect object instances kind language language users less lexical lexicogrammatical linguistic meaning Note occur Od:NP offered particular passive pattern selection peripheral placed position possible prepositional present study principles of pattern prototypical quantitative question realised reasons refers regard relative relevant represents routines schema semantic roles SEND sentence SHOW shown similar situation speakers specific spoken structure suggested syntactic syntax Table taken TELL theory told transferred entity type-I pattern type-III typical underlying usage-based model usually verbal