Chapter 2. From ‘means/path-creation’ to ‘Enabling’

Chapter 2
From ‘means/path-creation’ to ‘Enabling’

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Article outline

1.Introduction
2.Challenging the ‘means/path-creation’ characterization
- 2.1What the ‘disjoint reference’ cases tell us
- 2.2‘Enabling’ rather than ‘means’ or ‘path-creation’
3.Toward a deeper analysis
- 3.1The relevance of force dynamics
- 3.2Problems with Talmy (2000a)
- 3.3A revised force-dynamic account
4.The ‘Enabling’ type involving force-oppositions
- 4.1Force/fight/push one’s way through the crowd
- 4.2Other similar cases
- 4.3 Lie your way on to the voyage
- 4.4Pay my way in to the show
5.Conclusion
Notes