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Metaphoric motivation in grammatical structure

The caused-motion construction from the perspective of the Lexical-Constructional Model
  • Annalisa Baicchi
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Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon
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Abstract

This chapter is concerned with the use of non-motion verbs in the caused-motion construction. Their literal or figurative motional interpretation is claimed to be motivated by high-level conceptual metaphors. Typically, these non-motion verbs are lexically intransitive and coerced into transitive verbs in the caused-motion construction. The goal of the paper to identify the constructional meanings of these verbs resulting from processes of metaphorization. These meaning constructions are analyzed within the theoretical frameworks of Conceptual Metaphor Theory and the Lexical-Constructional Model.

Abstract

This chapter is concerned with the use of non-motion verbs in the caused-motion construction. Their literal or figurative motional interpretation is claimed to be motivated by high-level conceptual metaphors. Typically, these non-motion verbs are lexically intransitive and coerced into transitive verbs in the caused-motion construction. The goal of the paper to identify the constructional meanings of these verbs resulting from processes of metaphorization. These meaning constructions are analyzed within the theoretical frameworks of Conceptual Metaphor Theory and the Lexical-Constructional Model.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Part I. Motivation in grammar
  6. Semantic motivation of the English auxiliary 29
  7. The mind as ground 49
  8. Motivating the flexibility of oriented - ly adverbs 71
  9. The cognitive motivation for the use of dangling participles in English 89
  10. What motivates an inference? 107
  11. The conceptual motivation of aspect 133
  12. Metaphoric motivation in grammatical structure 149
  13. Motivation in English must and Hungarian kell 171
  14. The socio-cultural motivation of referent honorifics in Korean and Japanese 191
  15. Part II. Motivation in the Lexicon
  16. Conceptual motivation in adjectival semantics 215
  17. Metonymy, metaphor and the “weekend frame of mind” 233
  18. Intrinsic or extrinsic motivation? 251
  19. Motivational networks 269
  20. The “meaning-full” vocabulary of English and German 287
  21. Name index 299
  22. Subject index 303
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.27.10bai

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Part I. Motivation in grammar
  6. Semantic motivation of the English auxiliary 29
  7. The mind as ground 49
  8. Motivating the flexibility of oriented - ly adverbs 71
  9. The cognitive motivation for the use of dangling participles in English 89
  10. What motivates an inference? 107
  11. The conceptual motivation of aspect 133
  12. Metaphoric motivation in grammatical structure 149
  13. Motivation in English must and Hungarian kell 171
  14. The socio-cultural motivation of referent honorifics in Korean and Japanese 191
  15. Part II. Motivation in the Lexicon
  16. Conceptual motivation in adjectival semantics 215
  17. Metonymy, metaphor and the “weekend frame of mind” 233
  18. Intrinsic or extrinsic motivation? 251
  19. Motivational networks 269
  20. The “meaning-full” vocabulary of English and German 287
  21. Name index 299
  22. Subject index 303
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