Between Causative and Passive
Agentivity in the Affactive Construction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21408150 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Berit Johannsen (0009-0007-4076-336X, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik , Universität Greifswald , Ernst-Lohmeyer-Platz 3 , 17489 Greifswald , Germany, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 321-328 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0044-2305 • E-ISSN: 2196-4726 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/zaa-2021-2025 |
| OpenAlex | W3211709962 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
This brief discussion paper is concerned with the sequence [ have NP V pp ] and its distinction into a causative and a passive construction, which hinges on the (non-)agentivity of the subject participant, so that the sequence can be seen as ambiguous in that respect. Instead of analyzing these uses as two different constructions, I propose a unified analysis as instances of the affactive construction. This construction has the functional potential of putting primary focus on secondary participants, so-called afficiary participants. The potential ambiguity with regard to the agentivity of these participants is not an issue in usage, as it is only evoked as part of the conceptual content in the background
Ambiguity · Causative · Focus (optics) · Physics · Sequence (biology) · Subject (documents) · World Wide Web · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |