Dutch manner of motion verbs
Disentangling auxiliary choice, telicity and syntactic function
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12197010 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maaike Beliën (0000-0002-2867-538X, Delft University of Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-26 |
| Publication date | 2012-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cognitive Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0936-5907 • E-ISSN: 1613-3641 |
| Publisher | De Gruyter Mouton (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/cog-2012-0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2313116180 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Dutch manner of motion verbs play a prominent role in the literature on unaccusativity. As these verbs can take both hebben ‘have’ and zijn ‘be’ as their perfective auxiliaries, they are considered to show both unergative and unaccusative behavior. The general consensus is that these verbs normally take hebben , yet occur with zijn if they are ‘telicized’ by an endpoint, and that the auxiliaries are diagnostics for the syntactic status of prepositional phrases (PPs). The paper presents attested data that reveal that this generalization is untenable: there are examples that take the opposite auxiliary from what the generalization predicts. To account for the full set of data, the paper takes a cognitive-grammar perspective, arguing that auxiliary choice, telicity and syntactic status of PPs are independent issues requiring their own explanations. Auxiliary choice is analyzed in terms of alternate construals of a motion event: with hebben as a type of act and with zijn as a change of location. In this manner, the paper adds to a growing body of literature that questions the usefulness of the coarse unergative–unaccusative distinction, advocating a ‘local analysis’ instead
Cognition · Cognitive grammar · Construal level theory · Construals · Function (biology · Generalization · Grammar · Linguistics · Motion (physics · Perspective (graphical · Set (abstract data type · Categorization, perception, and language · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
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| Citation span | 2014 - 2022 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |