Getting at the meaning of the English at-construction: the case of a constructional split

On the basis of a corpus-based study of the at-frame in English, this article evaluates Goldberg’s (2006) hypothesis that constructional meaning originates with the meaning of the verbs frequently occurring in a given syntactic pattern. Our study reveals that for the at-construction, this hypothesis...

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Main Authors: Florent Perek, Maarten Lemmens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive 2010-12-01
Series:CogniTextes
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cognitextes/331