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Ebook: Deconstructing Constructions
- Tags: Grammar Comparative and general., Linguistic models., Typology (Linguistics)
- Year: 2008
- Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
- City: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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This article focuses on the so-called get-passive, frequently regarded as a problematic construction in the linguistic literature. It is my contention that a lexically-based approach is insufficient to account for the appropriateness of the get-passive, since pragmatic and contextual factors are also crucial to ascertain its acceptability. Basing my discussion on corpus data, I will analyze how the semantics of the get-passive interacts with the semantic properties of verbs from five semantic types that can be integrated within the construction: affect, giving, motion (take-subtype), corporeal and annoying. Along the lines of Goldberg & Jackendoff (2004: 563), I suggest that the get-passive should be treated as a family of constructions in order to account for its semantic and pragmatic properties. Two main subconstructions will be posited: the causative get-passive and the spontaneous get-passive.
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