A corpus-based study of infinitival and sentential complement constructions in Spanish

Yoon, Jiyoung; Wulff, Stefanie

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“…Recently, the increased application of online corpora has provided ideal possibilities for exploring the reciprocal relation between different kinds of grammatical patterns and the words combining with them in naturallyoccurring discourse, as indicated by a multitude of studies (e.g. Hilpert, 2014;Kaleta, 2014;Stefanowitsch, 2014;Perek, 2015;Kim & Davies, 2016;Yoon & Wulff, 2016;Wiliński, 2017Wiliński, , 2018Wiliński, , 2020, to mention a few). Perek's (2015) quantitative corpus-based investigation, for example, showed how a corpus-based method can aid in explaining many issues concerning the argument structure of words and providing quantitative descriptions of their usage, whereas Yoon and Wulff's (2016) study examined Spanish infinitive and sentential constructions collocating with various complements and determined the verbs that are strongly attracted to a particular complement.…”

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“…Hilpert, 2014;Kaleta, 2014;Stefanowitsch, 2014;Perek, 2015;Kim & Davies, 2016;Yoon & Wulff, 2016;Wiliński, 2017Wiliński, , 2018Wiliński, , 2020, to mention a few). Perek's (2015) quantitative corpus-based investigation, for example, showed how a corpus-based method can aid in explaining many issues concerning the argument structure of words and providing quantitative descriptions of their usage, whereas Yoon and Wulff's (2016) study examined Spanish infinitive and sentential constructions collocating with various complements and determined the verbs that are strongly attracted to a particular complement. Finally, Wiliński's (2017) study sought to identify minor distributional differences between two near-synonymous grammatical ISSN 0860-150X Jarosław Wiliński patterns: in other words, the on the brink of-noun construction versus the on the verge of-noun construction.…”

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Nouns in the Be of N-Construction: A Corpus-Based Investigation

Wiliński

2021

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

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This paper employs a usage-based approach to grammar, the theory of frame semantics, and the corpus-based method referred to as the attraction-reliance measure, for the purpose of examining the mutual association between a noun and the be of N-pattern: in other words, to determine nouns that are strongly associated with this construction. On the basis of the data gleaned from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), the paper aims to indicate that there are specific categories of nouns occurring in the construction under scrutiny, and that this construction performs specific functions in discourse.

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Nouns in the Be of N-Construction: A Corpus-Based Investigation

Wiliński

2021

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

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Taming iconicity in the Spanish and Italian translations of Shakespeare’sSonnets

Gonzálvez-García

2018

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Building on Tabakowska’s (1993, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2013) full-blown defense of a cognitive linguistic approach to literary translation as well as on previous research dealing with the implementations of Construction Grammar(s) for translation studies (Szymańska 2011a, 2011b; Serbina 2015), this paper critically examines the role of iconicity in selected lines from Shakespeare’s Sonnets capitalizing on the passage of Time-Death and their corresponding translations in present-day Spanish and Italian. Specifically, drawing on Cognitive Construction Grammar (Goldberg 2006) and Contrastive Construction Grammar (Boas 2010a; Boas & Gonzálvez-García 2014), I focus on instances of secondary predication with verbs of sensory perception, causative constructions and aspectual constructions iconically connected with the above-mentioned motif and demonstrate that iconicity emerges as a very useful communicative ‘filter’ that can help to minimize any undesirable arbitrariness which may obscure the semantico-pragmatic interpretation of the source text and/or its rendering into the target text.

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A corpus-based study of infinitival and sentential complement constructions in Spanish

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Nouns in the Be of N-Construction: A Corpus-Based Investigation

Nouns in the Be of N-Construction: A Corpus-Based Investigation

Taming iconicity in the Spanish and Italian translations of Shakespeare’sSonnets

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