Degree Resultatives as Second-Order Constructions

IF 0.4 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
J. Hoeksema, D. Napoli
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Abstract

Resultatives in English and Dutch have developed special degree readings. These readings stem from a reinterpretation of the resultative predicate as indicating a high degree rather than an actual result. For example, when a parent says I love you to death, one need not call the cops, since the sentence is not about love turning lethal, but merely indicative of a high degree of affection. Such cases have often been noted in the literature as idiomatic, but this view ignores the fact that these are not isolated cases but productive constructions that can be used with a variety of verbs. We explore various resultative constructions in English and Dutch, and give a classification of the subtypes involved as well as their diachronic development from ordinary to degree interpretation. We link these subtypes to lexical semantic classes of verbs. Both English and Dutch show a steady growth in the lexical and structural diversity of degree resultatives throughout the early modern and contemporary periods (1600-2000). We focus in our paper on the period 1800-2000, for which we did an extensive corpus study using the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) and Delpher (a collection of digitized Dutch newspapers, journals, magazines, and other resources). One of our findings is that, similar to other types of expressive language, such as degree modification and emphatic negation, taboo expressions play a role in degree resultatives; in fact, their role is excessive. We outline a number of the commonalities among the semantic domains of expressive language used in resultatives.
作为二阶构造的度结果
英语和荷兰语的结果已经开发了专门的学位读物。这些读数源于对结果谓词的重新解释,表明高度而不是实际结果。例如,当父母说“我爱你爱到死”时,你不必报警,因为这句话并不是说爱会致命,而只是表明了一种高度的爱。这种情况在文献中经常被认为是习惯用语,但这种观点忽视了这样一个事实,即这些不是孤立的情况,而是可以与各种动词一起使用的生产性结构。我们探讨了英语和荷兰语的各种结果结构,并给出了所涉及的亚类型的分类以及它们从普通到程度解释的历时发展。我们将这些子类型与动词的词汇语义类联系起来。英语和荷兰语在早期现代和当代时期(1600-2000年)都显示出程度结果语的词汇和结构多样性的稳定增长。在我们的论文中,我们将重点放在1800-2000年期间,为此我们使用历史美国英语语料库(COHA)和delphher(数字化荷兰报纸、期刊、杂志和其他资源的集合)进行了广泛的语料库研究。我们的发现之一是,与其他类型的表达语言(如程度修饰和强调否定)类似,禁忌表达在程度结果语中发挥作用;事实上,他们的作用是过度的。我们概述了结果句中表达性语言的语义域之间的一些共性。
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