DIFFERENCES IN MEANING ENRICHMENT OF ASPECTUAL CONSTRUCTIONS IN ACCUSATIVE AND INSTRUMENTAL: ZAVRŠITI KUĆU ORZAVRŠITI S KUĆOM Cover Image

RAZLIKE U ZNAČENJSKOM OBOGAĆIVANJU INSTRUMENTALNIH I AKUZATIVNIH FAZNIH KONSTRUKCIJA: ZAVRŠITI KUĆU ILI ZAVRŠITI S KUĆOM
DIFFERENCES IN MEANING ENRICHMENT OF ASPECTUAL CONSTRUCTIONS IN ACCUSATIVE AND INSTRUMENTAL: ZAVRŠITI KUĆU ORZAVRŠITI S KUĆOM

Author(s): Jelena Tušek
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Philology
Published by: Институт за македонска литература
Keywords: aspectual verbs; accusative; instrumental; construction grammar; enriched compositionality; generalized event knowledge

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the enriched compositionality (R. Jackendoff) of constructions with aspectual verb završiti (to finish) in different syntactic frames (završiti kućuand završiti s kućom) in Croatian. Experimental approach is used to explore the range of implicit predicates of sentences with male and female subjects. Analysis has shown that the implicit predicates in sentences with semantically incompatible constituents are the result of constructional meaning and the activation of the generalized event knowledge (K. McRae, M. Kazunaga) during sentence processing.

  • Issue Year: 17/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 268-287
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Croatian