Cognate arguments and the Transitivity Requirement in the history of English

Lavidas, Nikolaos

doi:10.2478/linpo-2014-0013

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“…Phenomenal differences between both can be captured in constructions that require the CO to undergopassivization, pronominalization, topicalization, wh-question, etc. (Massam 1990;Matsumoto 1996;Real-Puigdollars 2008;Shin-ya-Iwasaki 2007;Lavidas 2014). Although the sentences show some parallelism in morphology, syntax and semantics with the clausal verbs, the analysis of this parallel relationship, it has been observed, fails to be captured satisfactorily from a single theoretical approach.…”

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Cognate Objects and the Transitivity Requirements in Kenyang

A.E.Oben¹

2021

IJLC

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In the generative framework, all finite clauses must project an external argument (a subject) in satisfaction of the EPP. The availability of an internal argument (an object) is constrained by the Transitivity Requirement (TR) hypothesis Roberge 2004, 2005).Accordingly, the object position is obligatorily present in a VP irrespective of the lexical semantics of the verb and unparalleled morphosyntax. In consequence, both transitive and intransitive verbs should project an object position which can be realized overtly or null. Intransitive verbs of complete predication (for example, the fisherman drowned) do not require complements to convey the meaning of the verb. In contrast, intransitive verbs of incomplete predication(such as he died a sudden death) need extra information supplied by the complements to be fully interpretable. Many intransitive verbs of incomplete predication have been shown to display unergativeand unaccusativeproperties in virtue of subcategorizing for postverbal constituentsso-called cognate objectswhose semantic concept is wholly embedded in the semantics of the verbs it governs.Cognate objects of both unergative and unaccusative verbs have been analysed as rhematic complements or adjuncts (Ramchand 2008) rather than true arguments/part of the thematic grid. The argument adjunct disjuncture or both is well documented (

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Cognate Objects and the Transitivity Requirements in Kenyang

A.E.Oben¹

2021

IJLC

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The growth of the transitivising Reaction Object Construction

Bouso

2020

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This paper explores the growth of the Reaction Object Construction (ROC) as in Pauline smiled her thanks, offering new insights into its characterisation and historical development from the perspective of Construction Grammar (Goldberg 1995, 2006, 2019) and its application to patterns of language change (Hilpert 2013; Traugott & Trousdale 2013). It is argued that the modern ROC qualifies as a traditional form-meaning pairing and, at a deeper level, as a polysemous construction that follows the path of development of other transitivising constructions such as the way-construction (Israel 1996), and of processes of constructionalisation in general. Once the ROC imposes a coreferential constraint on its object argument, acquiring in this way its status as a form-meaning pairing over the Early Modern English period (1500–1700), the construction increases its productivity and schematicity; at the same time it decreases its compositionality since the link between the form/syntax and the overall meaning of the construction becomes less transparent, as in The door jingled a welcome. The ROC can thus be argued to be part and result of a broader development in the grammar of English, namely the historical trend towards transitivisation.

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Aspectual cognate objects in Hungarian

Farkas

2021

Folia Linguistica

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This paper examines aspectual cognate objects in Hungarian. Its main contribution lies in the syntactic and semantic analysis of three classes of accusative pseudo-objects, which are literally not cognate with the prototypical unergative verb they accompany but are demonstrated to be non-subcategorized and non-thematic elements that have the same role and the same syntactic and semantic properties as aspectual cognate objects in languages where these nominals are both semantically and morphologically related to the verb. In addition, the paper fills a typologically unexpected gap, considering that Hungarian, as a strong satellite-framed language, is predicted to have aspectual cognate object constructions.

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Cognate arguments and the Transitivity Requirement in the history of English

Cited by 8 publications

References 18 publications

Cognate Objects and the Transitivity Requirements in Kenyang

Cognate Objects and the Transitivity Requirements in Kenyang

The growth of the transitivising Reaction Object Construction

Aspectual cognate objects in Hungarian

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