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FIGURATIVE USES OF THE CAUSED-MOTION CONSTRUCTION
FIGURATIVE USES OF THE CAUSED-MOTION CONSTRUCTION

Author(s): Mariana Neagu
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: caused-motion construction; Construction Grammar; high-level metaphor; Lexical Constructional Model (LCM); lexical-constructional subsumption

Summary/Abstract: As figurative uses of the caused-motion construction are not discussed extensively and systematically in the literature, this paper focuses on the following cases: (a) motion involved when the conditions of satisfaction of the predicate are realized, (b) actual motion without motion verbs, (c) figurative motion indicating a change of state, and (d) metaphorical motion with motion verbs

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 17
  • Page Range: 211-222
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English
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