English Cognate Object Construction: A Usage-based, Construction Grammar Approach
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The English cognate object (CO) construction like laugh a nervous laugh raises intriguing analytic and empirical questions. They include (a) what kind of verb licenses the CO, (b) what is the grammatical status of the CO (including its argumenthood), and (c) what are these semantic/pragmatic contributions of the construction? In answering these questions and to see real usages of the construction, in this paper we have investigated English corpora like the COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English) and suggest a lexicalist perspective. In particular, we assume that there are two different types of the construction, Eventive-CO and Referential-CO, based on the object’s referential property. This difference in the referential power leads to many syntactic differences between the two types. In addition, we show that the uses of the CO selecting verbs are much more flexible than the literature has suggested. As a way of accounting for these variations, we sketch a Construction Grammar view in which argument structure constructions, lexical semantics, and constructional constraints are all interacting together to license the construction in question.
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The English cognate object (CO) construction like laugh a nervous laugh raises intriguing analytic and empirical questions. They include (a) what kind of verb licenses the CO, (b) what is the grammatical status of the CO (including its argumenthood), and (c) what are these semantic/pragmatic contributions of the construction? In answering these questions and to see real usages of the construction, in this paper we have investigated English corpora like the COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English) and suggest a lexicalist perspective. In particular, we assume that there are two different types of the construction, Eventive-CO and Referential-CO, based on the object’s referential property. This difference in the referential power leads to many syntactic differences between the two types. In addition, we show that the uses of the CO selecting verbs are much more flexible than the literature has suggested. As a way of accounting for these variations, we sketch a Construction Grammar view in which argument structure constructions, lexical semantics, and constructional constraints are all interacting together to license the construction in question.
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