A Cognitive Grammar Approach to the Active Construction in English
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As a grammatical category, the active construction in English shows many variations which puzzle EFL learners. Given this tendency to confuse, this paper aims to address the English active construction from the perspective of cognitive grammar. It is argued that there are prototype and non-prototype in the English active construction in terms of semantic and syntactic features. The prototypical active construction not only instantiates itself in simple, affirmative, declarative sentences with the resultative transitive verbs in the past form, but also profiles an action chain that involves two demarcated participants: the agent and patient. The agent, often coded as the subject, is in the topical position of the sentence and always exerts volitional influence on the patient, which is coded as the object and affected by the agent. In the non-prototypical active construction, the cognitive construal offers the better interpretations of interchangeable role archetypes in the subject and object position and selects different composite verbs invoked by viewing the event with the same conceptual content.
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As a grammatical category, the active construction in English shows many variations which puzzle EFL learners. Given this tendency to confuse, this paper aims to address the English active construction from the perspective of cognitive grammar. It is argued that there are prototype and non-prototype in the English active construction in terms of semantic and syntactic features. The prototypical active construction not only instantiates itself in simple, affirmative, declarative sentences with the resultative transitive verbs in the past form, but also profiles an action chain that involves two demarcated participants: the agent and patient. The agent, often coded as the subject, is in the topical position of the sentence and always exerts volitional influence on the patient, which is coded as the object and affected by the agent. In the non-prototypical active construction, the cognitive construal offers the better interpretations of interchangeable role archetypes in the subject and object position and selects different composite verbs invoked by viewing the event with the same conceptual content.
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