Danish verb prefixes and the schematizing transitive prefix construction.

Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapportBidrag til bog/antologiForskningfagfællebedømt

In a constructionist approach to grammar, morphological constructions and clausal constructions may have the same theoretical status as argument structure constructions (e.g., Goldberg, 1995, pp. 22–23; Croft, 2001; Booij, 2010). In this chapter, the author argues that the Danish verb prefixes be- and for-, in addition to verbal derivation, impose a lexeme-independent transitive argument structure construction with three meaning variants. In a large-scale corpus study, a distributional analysis of the prefix construction and its association with verbal base lexemes shows that the two constructional variants have a different semantic profile. While the potential productivity of be- and for- constructions is restricted, authentic examples of creative usage show that all constructional variants are partially productive in present-day Danish.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelConstructional approaches to Nordic languages (CAL)
RedaktørerEvie Coussé, Steffen Höder, Benjamin Lyngfelt Lyngfelt, Julia Prentice
UdgivelsesstedAmsterdam
ForlagJohn Benjamins Publishing Company
Publikationsdato2023
Sider212-246
ISBN (Trykt)9789027249302
StatusUdgivet - 2023
NavnConstructional Approaches to Language
Vol/bind37
ISSN1573-594X

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