Get-passives in English
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2268754 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P Collins (0000-0002-3510-3398, UNSW Sydney, corresponding author), Peter C Collins (0000-0002-3441-2981) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 43-56 |
| Publication date | 1996-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Englishes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0883-2919 • E-ISSN: 1467-971X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-971x.1996.tb00091.x |
| OpenAlex | W2152482395 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 7 |
A number of claims and counter-claims which have been made concerning get-passives in English are tested via interrogation of a set of written and spoken corpora. Get-passives are shown to form a fuzzy set, with about one-third of corpus tokens belonging to a 'core' whose members have an explicit or at least accessible agent-phrase, a lexical verb with typically dynamic meaning, and which alternate with an active clause. Beyond the core there are a number of subclasses displaying progressively fewer features in common with core members. On the borderline of the set are copular constructions, with get a 'resulting copula' and the participle fully adjectivalized. The data suggest that get-passives are very often associated with two types of pragmatic implicature: one, that the subject-referent is responsible for initiating the process (very evident in the semantically-related complex reflexive construction); the other, that the process is (usually) unfavourable or (less often) favourable for the subject-referent. Finally, the corpus provides evidence of at least three types of variation with get-passives: regional (their frequency is comparable in American English and British English, higher in Australian English than in both of these, and higher in Indian English than in Australian English); stylistic (they tend to be avoided in more formal styles); and diachronic (they are increasing in popularity over time in Australian English, and probably in the other varieties
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| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,83 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |