Constructions with subject vs. object experiencers in Spanish and Italian
A corpus-based approach
This study analyzes Spanish and Italian clauses that denote processes or states
of feeling or emotion involving two participants, an experiencer and a stimulus.
Some of these clauses construe the experiencer as Subject and the stimulus as
Object, while others have experiencers coded as dative or accusative Objects
and stimuli as Subjects.
Using corpus data, we track the frequency and distribution of a number
of discourse-related properties of the arguments, such as animacy, person, and
syntactic category, in order to gain insight into how both constructions are
really used and conceived of by speakers. The results point to a non-random
distribution of these properties when comparing the ‘Experiencer-as-Subject’
with the ‘Experiencer-as-Object’ constructions, and reveal striking differences
in their frequency across textual genres.
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2017.
On the Brink of-Noun vs. On the Verge of-Noun: a Distinctive-Collexeme Analysis.
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