The Locative Alternation
A Contrastive Study of Dutch vs. English
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5828119 |
|---|---|
| Authors | An Laffut (K.U. Leuven, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 127-160 |
| Publication date | 1998-12-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Languages in Contrast (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1387-6759 • E-ISSN: 1569-9897 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/lic.1.2.03laf |
| OpenAlex | W2001076137 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
In this paper, I elaborate a 'lexicogrammatical approach to the locative alternation in Dutch and English, in which the semantics of the constructions is related directly to the semantic features of their verbs. First I take stock of the different verb classes associated with one or both variants in Dutch and English. Whereas both the spray and the load-classes alternate in English, only the spray-verbs do so in Dutch. However, the alternating spray-class is much more extended in Dutch, which I then argue is partly due to the use of the prefix be- in Dutch in one of the variants. Be-, I show, has an applicative meaning, and is used to bring out the correspondence between Patients designating a surface and the locative Process. When they are not prefixed by ht-, these verbs have a primarily dispersive meaning, which tends to collocate with the Patient designating the substance
Alternation (linguistics · Locative case · Prefix · Lexicography and Language Studies
| Citations per year | 0.16 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2017 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |