The paper shows how meaning is constructed in the caused-motion construction and explains the conceptual motivation of he subcategorial conversion of intransitive verbs; it relates instances of such a construction to Conceptual Metaphor and identifies the factors that its motivate diverse realizations and that allow for the performance of cognitive operations on them.

Idealized Cognitive Models at the interface between lexis and grammar

Baicchi Annalisa
2010-01-01

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The paper shows how meaning is constructed in the caused-motion construction and explains the conceptual motivation of he subcategorial conversion of intransitive verbs; it relates instances of such a construction to Conceptual Metaphor and identifies the factors that its motivate diverse realizations and that allow for the performance of cognitive operations on them.
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