In:Way expressions: A lexical-constructional approach
Seizi Iwata
[Human Cognitive Processing 84] 2027
► pp. vii–xiv
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Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1.Introduction
1.Introduction
2.Previous studies
3.The Jackendoff–Goldberg line of analysis
4.A closer look
4.1Getting the terminology straight
4.2A decoupling account cannot be true
4.3The status of way
4.4How far does the three-way distinction carry us?
4.5Cases of non-process verbs
5.Challenging problems
5.1Cases of disjoint reference
5.2Cases which do not express motion
5.3Interim summary
6.How to address the issues
6.1A lexical-constructional approach
6.2How to proceed
6.3Corpora search methodology
6.4Results of the search
7.Organization of the book
Chapter 2.From ‘means/path-creation’ to ‘Enabling’
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
4.3Lie your way on to the voyage
4.4Pay my way in to the show
5.Conclusion
Chapter 3.Consequences of the force-dynamic analysis
1.Introduction
2.“Motion despite some external difficulty” characterization
3.Why disjoint reference is possible
3.1The Japanese paid his way to Japan
3.2The attaché pushed our way through the crowd
4.When the process verb constraint fails
4.1Process verb constraint in Jackendoff (1990)
4.2Whole span of the distance?
4.3A force-dynamic account
5.Conclusion
Chapter 4.Reconsidering the ‘phrasal construction’ analysis
1.Introduction
2.Implications for the ‘phrasal construction’ analysis
3.Another look at the constituent structure of way expressions
3.1Jackendoff (1990)
3.2V Ving PP construction
3.3Further arguments for the complex verb analysis
4.Zooming in on [V one’s way]
4.1The role of the possessive form
4.2‘Disjoint reference’ cases
5.Conclusion
Chapter 5.He fights his way free
1.Introduction
2.Free is not an alternative realization of a goal PP
3.A force-dynamic perspective
4.The need for a new resultative construction
5.Where does this new resultative construction come from?
6.Conclusion
Chapter 6.He fought his way through the crowd
1.Introduction
2.Where the motion semantics comes from
2.1Parallel with manner-of-motion verbs
2.2How to analyze manner-of-motion verbs?
2.3Motion semantics as contributed by a phrasal construction
2.4Interim summary
3.Still another pattern
3.1A single action reading once again
3.2A look at be able to
3.2.1Actuality entailment
3.2.2Leclercq & Depraetere (2021)
4.A force-dynamic account
4.1The distinction between ‘ability’ and ‘opportunity’
in force-dynamic terms
in force-dynamic terms
4.2When enabling becomes enabling-causative
4.3‘Disjoint reference’ cases once again
4.4They fought their way clear onto the plains
5.Summary and conclusion
Chapter 7.When and why the path PP may be omitted
1.Introduction
2.Way expressions without a path PP
2.1Corpus data
2.2Apparently puzzling behaviors of pay one’s way
2.3Earn one’s way
3.How to partition the meaning into two parts
3.1Another look at manner-of-motion verbs
3.2Subtracting the motion semantics
from pay one’s way through college
from pay one’s way through college
3.3Subtracting the motion semantics
from earn one’s way through college
from earn one’s way through college
4.Not null instantiation, but subtracting of the motion semantics
5.An overall picture
6.Conclusion
Chapter 8.More on the ‘Enabling’ type
1.Introduction
2.The ‘Enabling’ type not involving force-oppositions
2.1Pick one’s way
2.2Find one’s way
2.3Feel/grope one’s way
3.Classification of the sub-types
4.Conclusion
Chapter 9.The ‘Causative’ type
1.Introduction
2.Claw his way up the cliff
2.1No obstacles on the cliff
2.2‘Get hold of’ claw one’s way
2.3Why the ‘Causative’ type?
3.Other similar cases involving a virtual pushing force
4.Other similar cases involving upward movement
4.1Climb our way up and clamber my way to the skylight
4.2Wing its way across the sky
4.3Work one’s way up the ladder
5.Box his way to victory
6.The scope of the ‘Causative’ type
6.1Boxed his way into their hearts
6.2Overate his way to obesity
7.Conclusion
Chapter 10.The so-called ‘manner’ type
1.Introduction
2.The distinction between the ‘manner’ type
and the ‘incidental activity’ type
and the ‘incidental activity’ type
3.Three varieties of manner of motion
3.1The ‘non-direct motion’ variety
3.2The ‘slow, gradual motion’ variety
3.3The ‘quick motion’ variety
4.Why these three varieties?
4.1Possible motivation of non-direct motion
4.2‘Motion-despite-difficulty’ scenario
5.Another look at the putative ban on manner-of-motion verbs
5.1Difficulty?
5.2Conversion?
6.Conclusion
Chapter 11.From ‘manner’ to ‘Motion-describing’
1.Introduction
2.The putative ‘result’ type
2.1Two ways of sound-emission
2.2Challenging the “reversal of causal relation” thesis
2.3The ‘Motion-describing’ type
3.The scope of the ‘Motion-describing’ type
3.1Grunted their way up the truck’s narrow ramp
3.2Whistling his way through the anthem
3.3Stumbled his way out of the room
3.4Sail our way to Jamaica
3.5The path winds its way around the Newton river
4.Summary
5.Conclusion
Chapter 12.Still further types?
1.Introduction
2.Eat/drink one’s way
2.1‘Enabling’ type?
2.2The ‘Enabling’ type and the ‘Causative’ type of eat one’s way
3.Analysis
3.1A ‘consumed amount’ path
3.2Moving along a ‘consumed amount’ path
3.3A large amount of food/beverage consumed
4.The ‘Purpose’ type
4.1Eat his way around Australia
4.2Further instances
5.Summary and conclusion of Chapter 12
6.Summary and conclusion of Chapters 8 to 12
Chapter 13.How the five types are organized
1.Introduction
2.Hierarchy of constructions
3.A network of way expressions
4.How is the ‘Incidental Activity’ type related to the other types?
5.The complex verb-based analysis once again
5.1The other types
5.2Where the ‘Incidental Activity’ type meets other types
6.Conclusion
Chapter 14.The enabling function of constructional schemas:
Conversion
Conversion
1.Introduction
2.Conversion and way expressions
2.1Adams (2001)
2.2The five types once again
3.Types of converted verbs
3.1The ‘Enabling’ type
3.1.1The ‘Obstacle-removing’ sub-type
3.1.2The ‘Path-finding’ sub-type
3.2The ‘Causative’ type
3.3The ‘Motion-describing’ type
3.4The ‘Purpose’ type
3.5The ‘Incidental Activity’ type
4.Conclusion
Chapter 15.Special types of motion I: I knitted my way across the Atlantic
1.Introduction
2.When the subject is not self-propelling
2.1Knit my way across the Atlantic
2.2Motion on board a vehicle
2.3Decoupling an undergoer from an effector
2.4Similar cases
3.Temporal path
3.1Sleep one’s way and knit one’s way once again
3.2What is special about moving along the temporal path?
3.3How to accommodate motion along the temporal path
4.Conclusion
Chapter 16.Special types of motion II: The money found its way into the pockets of the players —
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
of the ‘Motion-describing’ type
5.4‘Self-propelled’ find one’s way once again
6.Conclusion
Chapter 17.Make one’s way
1.Introduction
2.The path need not be created, and difficulty not required
3.Which type does make one’s way belong to?
3.1‘Enabling’ type?
3.2Four other types of way expressions
3.3Why make one’s way is frequent
3.4Flexibility of make one’s way
4.Zooming in on make one’s way
4.1Complex verb analysis once again
4.2Why way can express a reified motion event
4.3The “object of result” thesis once again
5.Make one’s way in the world
6.Conclusion
Chapter 18.Modifiers of way
1.Introduction
2.Previous accounts
2.1Jackendoff (1990)
2.2Goldberg (1995)
3.Corpus data
3.1Types of verbs
3.2The range of modifiers
4.Why the adjective functions like manner adverbs
5.Why way may be interpreted to mean a physical path
5.1A possibility to make sense of the observed data
5.2Problems with the “way as expressing a physical path” thesis
5.3A super-imposition account
6.V one’s own way
7.Still further issues
7.1Wander their separate ways through Seaton Park
7.2Make the best of one’s way
7.3Pay one’s way once again
8.Conclusion
Chapter 19.Approaches other than the Jackendoff–Goldberg line
1.Introduction
2.Mondorf (2011)
2.1The putative competition between resultatives and way expressions
2.2Problems
2.3Why way expressions are sometimes synonymous
with resultatives and sometimes not
with resultatives and sometimes not
3.Szczesniak (2019)
3.1The putative pragmatic differences between resultatives
and way expressions
and way expressions
3.2The ‘Enabling’/’Causative’ distinction once again
4.Marantz (1992)
5.Kuno & Takami (2004)
5.1Motion through a nontrivial distance in an unusual manner
5.2Problems with Kuno & Takami (2004)
5.2.1What is an unusual manner?
5.2.2What is a nontrivial distance?
5.2.3Difficulty or distance?
5.2.4Untypical data
6.Nakajima (2005)
6.1A compositional account
6.2Problems
7.Conclusion
Chapter 20.Summary and conclusion
1.The issues raised once again
2.Chapter summaries
3.What the present account has revealed
3.1Form-meaning correspondences
3.2Interaction with general mechanisms
3.3Implications for theories of motion expressions
4.Beyond the ‘constructions save’ attitude
Appendix
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