Article published in:
Corpus-based Approaches to Construction GrammarEdited by Jiyoung Yoon and Stefan Th. Gries
[Constructional Approaches to Language 19] 2016
► pp. 105–144
Spanish constructions of directed motion – a quantitative study
Typological variation and framing strategy
In typological studies of expressions of motion events, there is a need for a
quantitative methodology that assesses and qualifies inter- and intra-linguistic
variation. The article reports on a large corpus study of the use of Spanish
motion verbs in constructions of telic motion. Verb associations with the
constructional V-slot were measured by using collostructional methodology
(Stefanowitsch and Gries, 2003). Six categories of construction-specific variation
were identified. The corpus data and broad evidence from other semantic
domains suggest that the encoding of Spanish argument structure is verb-driven
and that verb constraints versus schematicity is a typological parameter. The
study concludes that Spanish is a verb-framing language rather than a verbframed
language (cf. Talmy, 2000), which explains the substantial variation
observed.
Published online: 08 September 2016
https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.19.05ped
https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.19.05ped
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