What is it about?
This paper presents the results of a corpus study that demonstrate that the semantics of phrasal verbs can be systematically grasped through an emphasis on argument structure constructions.
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Why is it important?
This is the first time the relation between phrasal verbs and argument structure has been proved empirically.
Perspectives
The results of the study reported in this paper lay the foundation for future research into the role of argument structure and verbs in other languages
Professor Sergio Torres-Martínez
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This page is a summary of: Exploring attachment patterns between multi-word verbs and argument structure constructions, Lingua, July 2018, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2018.04.001.
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Exploring attachment patterns between multiword-verbs and argument structure constructions
Welcome to this video presentation of my paper entitled "Exploring attachment patterns between multiword-verbs and argument structure constructions". The main purpose of this video paper is to provide potential readers with an expanded analysis of the main concepts explored in the article, namely the definition of multi-word verbs as constructions, the role of argument structure constructions in the assignation of clause-level meaning, as well as notions such as embodiment, attachment patterns, as key elements of constructional learning. Please, feel free to cite this document as follows: Torres-Martínez, Sergio (2018).Exploring attachment patterns between multi-word verbs and argument structure constructions (video paper). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZhza...
Exploring attachment patterns (ELSEVIER Video)
The present paper reports the results of two corpus studies of multi-word verbs in the context of Cognitive Construction Grammar. The main claim of the constructionist approach adopted in this paper is that the meaning of specific multi-word verbs (MWVs), that is, combinations of a verb proper and a particle (spatial adverb, preposition, or both), overlaps the meaning of the argument structure construction in which it appears, thereby facilitating the positing of motivated categories. This theoretical claim is supported by the results of a two-staged corpus study. The first part of the study uses the affordances of the online interface of the 520-million-word Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). The results show that the identified MWVs in the corpus are skewed toward motional usages in spoken registers. The list of frequent MWVs provides the data for the second study. In this case, the results confirm the hypothesis that MWVs overlap specific argument structure constructions following distinct attachment patterns. This finding also suggests that argument structure constructions are high-order constructions that interface thought and language at a deep cognitive level
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