A tentative corpus-based approach to English ergative verbs
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2017-07-04
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Jaén: Universidad de Jaén
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Este TFG es un intento preliminar de abordar los verbos ergativos ingleses y construcciones similares como los verbos inacusativos, los verbos de manera de movimiento y las construcciones medias. Lainteracción de factores sintácticos, semánticos y pragmáticos requerirán un enfoque práctico a través de lingüística de corpus, que será de utilidad para arrojar más luz en el tema de los verbos ergativos ingleses, particularmente en los casos difíciles de explicar encontrados en la descripción y análisis de estas construcciones que no pueden explicarse únicamente desde un enfoque puramente sintáctico.
This dissertation is a tentative attempt to address English ergative verbs and kindred verbs such as unaccusative verbs, manner-of-motion verbs and middle constructions. The interplay of syntax, semantics and pragmatics shall require a practica! approach by means of corpus linguistics, which shall prove useful to shed further light on the issue of English ergative verbs, especially in the disparities, exceptionalities and rarities which appear in the description and analysis of these constructions and which cannot be merely explained from a purely syntactic approach.
This dissertation is a tentative attempt to address English ergative verbs and kindred verbs such as unaccusative verbs, manner-of-motion verbs and middle constructions. The interplay of syntax, semantics and pragmatics shall require a practica! approach by means of corpus linguistics, which shall prove useful to shed further light on the issue of English ergative verbs, especially in the disparities, exceptionalities and rarities which appear in the description and analysis of these constructions and which cannot be merely explained from a purely syntactic approach.