Capturing meaningful generalizations at varying degrees of resolution

IF 0.6 4区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Review of Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-06-06 DOI:10.1075/rcl.00153.gon

Francisco Gonzálvez-García

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Abstract

This article provides a principled constructionist account (Goldberg & Herbst, 2021) of the main characteristics of expressions like the following: (1) Juan es muy de (ir de) bares (‘Juan is very into (going to) bars’), and (2) Tu ayuda es muy de agradecer (‘Your help is very much appreciated’). Instances of this kind are best handled in terms of coercion between the intensifier and non-stative/non-gradable elements in the nominal slot of the de-PPs. Specifically, these combinations qualify as individual-level predicates with a characterizing, evaluative interpretation. The specific constructional interpretations in (1)–(2) arise from contextual adjustments (Carston, 2015), encoding a person’s habits and a potential modal deontic habituality, respectively. The semantic and pragmatic properties of the sub-constructions in (1)–(2), among others, can be adequately subsumed under a family of ser muy de-PP constructions, with the following general meaning: ‘X (SOMEONE/SOMETHING) (SUBJECT) IS SUBJECTIVELY CONSTRUED AS HAVING Y (A HIGHLIGHTED CLASSIFICATORY PROPERTY OF AN INDIVIDUAL/CLASS) (ATTRIBUTE)’.

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以不同的分辨率获取有意义的概括

这篇文章提供了一个原则性的建构主义描述（Goldberg&Herbst，2021），描述了以下表达的主要特征：（1）Juan es muy de（ir de）bares（“Juan非常喜欢（去）酒吧”）和（2）Tu ayuda es muy d agradecer（“非常感谢你的帮助”）。这类实例最好是在de PP的标称槽中的增强器和非静态/不可分级元素之间进行强制处理。具体来说，这些组合符合具有特征性、评价性解释的个体级谓词的资格。（1）-（2）中的具体结构解释源于上下文调整（Carston，2015），分别编码了一个人的习惯和潜在的模态义务习惯。（1）-（2）中的子结构的语义和语用性质等，可以充分包含在一个ser-muy-de-PP结构家族中，具有以下一般含义：“X（SOMEONE/SOMETHING）（SUBJECT）被主观地解释为具有Y（一个个体/类的突出分类性质）（ATTRIBUTE）”。

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