Grammatically relevant aspects of meaning and verbal polysemy

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• dc.contributor.author McNally, Louise, 1965-
• dc.contributor.author Spalek, Alexandra Anna
• dc.date.accessioned 2022-11-25T07:00:56Z
• dc.date.available 2022-11-25T07:00:56Z
• dc.date.issued 2022
• dc.description.abstract The debate over the relation between grammatically relevant (specifically, what we term event referential) and idiosyncratic aspects of verb meaning has produced a considerable literature. Some authors, such as Levin and Rappaport Hovav, have appealed to figurative uses of verbs as a source of data when the analysis of their literal uses has been controversial, a move that has sometimes been criticized. However, the question of whether figurative uses of verbs preserve the event referential properties of their literal counterparts and are therefore a valid source of data has not, to our knowledge, been systematically explored. We offer two detailed cross-linguistic case studies of Spanish and English verbs to provide an argument that figurative verb uses indeed are a reliable source of evidence for identifying event referential components of meaning: In each case study we find clear evidence for the preservation of these components across uses, indicating that these aspects of meaning both constrain and facilitate figurative uses of verbs.en
• dc.description.sponsorship This work was supported by grant FFI2016-76045-P (AEI/ MINEICO/FEDER, UE), a Salvador de Madariaga mobility grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, an ICREA Academia award to the first author, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.en
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• dc.identifier.citation McNally L, Spalek AA. Grammatically relevant aspects of meaning and verbal polysemy. Linguistics. 2022;60(6):1943–87. DOI: 10.1515/ling-2020-0167
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0167
• dc.identifier.issn 1613-396X
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/55000
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher De Gruyter
• dc.relation.ispartof Linguistics. 2022;60(6):1943–87
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/FFI2016-76045-P
• dc.rights © 2022 the author(s), published by De Gruyter. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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• dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• dc.subject.keyword Englishen
• dc.subject.keyword Figurative polysemyen
• dc.subject.keyword Lexical semanticsen
• dc.subject.keyword Spanishen
• dc.subject.keyword Verbsen
• dc.title Grammatically relevant aspects of meaning and verbal polysemy
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