Danish verb prefixes and the schematizing transitive prefix construction.
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Danish verb prefixes and the schematizing transitive prefix construction. / Pedersen, Johan.
Constructional approaches to Nordic languages (CAL). ed. / Evie Coussé; Steffen Höder; Benjamin Lyngfelt Lyngfelt; Julia Prentice. Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2023. p. 212-246 (Constructional Approaches to Language, Vol. 37).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Danish verb prefixes and the schematizing transitive prefix construction.
AU - Pedersen, Johan
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9789027249302
T3 - Constructional Approaches to Language
SP - 212
EP - 246
BT - Constructional approaches to Nordic languages (CAL)
A2 - Coussé, Evie
A2 - Höder, Steffen
A2 - Lyngfelt, Benjamin Lyngfelt
A2 - Prentice, Julia
PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company
CY - Amsterdam
ER -
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