English vis-à-vis Italian Aspectual Verb Constructions

The Case of Continuative Aspectualizers

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ID21830596
AuthorsDaniele Franceschi (0000-0003-1283-6932, Roma Tre University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume10
Issue5
Pages39
Publication date2020-08-30
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of English Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1923-869X • E-ISSN: 1923-8703
PublisherCanadian Center of Science and Education (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5539/ijel.v10n5p39
OpenAlexW3037217042
LanguageEN
References cited8

This paper provides an initial analysis of continuative aspectualizers from a contrastive English-Italian perspective. The aim is to investigate the areas of overlap and contrast in terms of the lexico-syntactic behaviour and semantic scope of the main continuative verbs in the two languages, i.e., keep, continue, proceed, resume vs. (man)tenere, continuare, procedere, riprendere. The focus will also be on the identification of the cognitive factors that interact with the prototypical features of these predicates, licensing or blocking the constructions types that can embed them. Two primary mapping operations, namely metonymy and metaphor, will be observed to motivate the behaviour of continuative aspectualizers in transitive and intransitive constructions as well as in less common patterns, such as the middle, reflexive and resultative construction

Causative · Definiteness · Linguistics · Metaphor · Metaphor and metonymy · Metonymy · Resultative · Transitive relation · Verb · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · linguistics and terminology studies · Mathematics · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence

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