Measuring the degree of near-synonymy of Spanish verbs of putting : a multivariable corpus analysis of poner and meter
| Autor: | Marie Comer, Clara Vanderschueren, Renata Enghels |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Event (relativity) Modal verb Verb 06 humanities and the arts Locative case Spanish Concreteness logistic regression analysis Language and Linguistics Linguistics Languages and Literatures (locative) verbs of putting 0602 languages and literature Spanish verbs Construal level theory near-synonymy Animacy Psychology |
| Zdroj: | FUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGE |
| ISSN: | 0929-998X |
| Popis: | The present article presents a corpus-based study of two near-synonymous verbs in Spanish: the locative verbs of puttingponerandmeter. Starting from the universal principle of linguistic economy, the paper aims to empirically identify potentially influencing variables that determine the native speaker’s choice between the two verbs. It is investigated whether and to what extent the choice is governed by a set of variables related to the nature of the locative movement itself and the characteristics of the participants taking part in the event. The difference between the near-synonyms is shown to be determined mainly by the direction of the locative movement, the semantic nature of the participants (animacy, concreteness), the reflexiveness of the event, as well as the cognitive construal of the locative event (the possibility of a container-reading). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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