The directed motion construction in Swedish

Bibliographic Data

ID10141222
AuthorsIda Toivonen (0000-0002-9683-0302, University of Rochester, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume38
Issue2
Pages313-345
Publication date2002-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-2267 • E-ISSN: 1469-7742
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s002222670200141x
OpenAlexW1992758215
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited8

This paper introduces a Swedish construction, called THE DIRECTED MOTION CONSTRUCTION (DMC). The DMC is parallel to the English WAY construction, which has recently received considerable attention in a debate comparing constructions to lexical rules. The DMC is very productive, and must therefore be taken seriously by any grammatical theory. This paper gives a detailed description of the DMC, and formalizes it in two ways: as a construction and as a lexical rule. Although both formalizations are possible, the construction more straightforwardly captures the most interesting aspect of the DMC: the fact that the overall meaning cannot be tied to any one of its individual parts

Construction Grammar · Epistemology · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Motion (physics · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · linguistics and terminology studies · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation