In:Way expressions: A lexical-constructional approach
Seizi Iwata
[Human Cognitive Processing 84] 2027
► pp. 266–285
Chapter 16Special types of motion II
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Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Putative lexical exceptions to the self-propelled motion constraint
- 3.Find one’s way
- 3.1The ‘self-propelled’ type
- 3.2How to arrive at the ‘non-self-propelled’ type
- 4.Where non-self-propelling subjects come from
- 4.1Agent-backgrounding motion
- 4.2Not lexically governed
- 4.3When and why the agent is backgrounded
- 4.4Parallel with causative alternation
- 5.More on find one’s way
- 5.1Agent-backgrounding motion is not necessarily goal-oriented
- 5.2Lexical semantics of find
- 5.3‘Non-self-propelled’ find one’s way as an instance
of the ‘Motion-describing’ type - 5.4‘Self-propelled’ find one’s way once again
- 6.Conclusion
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