Chapter 8. Motivation behind the extended senses of the Polish ditransitive construction
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Joanna Paszenda
Abstract
This chapter, drawing on Goldberg’s (1992/2006, 1995, 2002) and Croft’s (2003) analyses of the English ditransitive construction, employs Geeraerts’ (1998/2006) multidimensional model of constructional polysemy. Its main aim is to characterize the family of ditransitive expressions in Polish and to identify the cognitive mechanisms that motivate them. Relying on the groundwork laid by Rudzka-Ostyn’s (1996), Dąbrowska’s (1997), and Fried’s (1999, 2004, 2011) studies of the Polish and Czech dative case, the chapter underscores the semantic contribution of overt case marking on the first object as the key factor licensing the wider semantic range of the Polish pattern compared to the English construction, notably its application to the expression of events of ‘pure’ benefaction, malefaction, and reversed transfer.
Abstract
This chapter, drawing on Goldberg’s (1992/2006, 1995, 2002) and Croft’s (2003) analyses of the English ditransitive construction, employs Geeraerts’ (1998/2006) multidimensional model of constructional polysemy. Its main aim is to characterize the family of ditransitive expressions in Polish and to identify the cognitive mechanisms that motivate them. Relying on the groundwork laid by Rudzka-Ostyn’s (1996), Dąbrowska’s (1997), and Fried’s (1999, 2004, 2011) studies of the Polish and Czech dative case, the chapter underscores the semantic contribution of overt case marking on the first object as the key factor licensing the wider semantic range of the Polish pattern compared to the English construction, notably its application to the expression of events of ‘pure’ benefaction, malefaction, and reversed transfer.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Introduction 1
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Part I. Analytical perspectives on grammatical constructions
- Chapter 1. The role of verbs and verb classes in identifying German search -constructions 17
- Chapter 2. Embodied motivations for abstract in and on constructions 53
- Chapter 3. Doing Tsukahara and the Epley in a cross-linguistic perspective 77
- Chapter 4. The role of inferencing in the interpretation of two expressive speech act constructions 109
- Chapter 5. Exploring inter-constructional relations in the constructicon 135
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Part II. From applications to theory and back
- Chapter 6. Revisiting the English resultative family of constructions 175
- Chapter 7. The family of German dative constructions 205
- Chapter 8. Motivation behind the extended senses of the Polish ditransitive construction 241
- Chapter 9. The English conative as a family of constructions 277
- Chapter 10. Multimodal constructional resemblance 301
- Index 339
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Introduction 1
-
Part I. Analytical perspectives on grammatical constructions
- Chapter 1. The role of verbs and verb classes in identifying German search -constructions 17
- Chapter 2. Embodied motivations for abstract in and on constructions 53
- Chapter 3. Doing Tsukahara and the Epley in a cross-linguistic perspective 77
- Chapter 4. The role of inferencing in the interpretation of two expressive speech act constructions 109
- Chapter 5. Exploring inter-constructional relations in the constructicon 135
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Part II. From applications to theory and back
- Chapter 6. Revisiting the English resultative family of constructions 175
- Chapter 7. The family of German dative constructions 205
- Chapter 8. Motivation behind the extended senses of the Polish ditransitive construction 241
- Chapter 9. The English conative as a family of constructions 277
- Chapter 10. Multimodal constructional resemblance 301
- Index 339
