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| Title: | The directed motion construction in Swedish |
| Author: | Ida Toivonen |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| Homepage: | http://www.ling.canterbury.ac.nz/people/toivonen.shtml |
| Institution: | Carleton University |
| Linguistic Field: | Syntax |
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Swedish
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| Abstract: | This paper introduces a Swedish construction, called THE DIRECTED MOTION CONSTRUCTION (DMC). The DMC is parallel to the English WAY construction, which has recently received considerable attention in a debate comparing constructions to lexical rules. The DMC is very productive, and must therefore be taken seriously by any grammatical theory. This paper gives a detailed description of the DMC, and formalizes it in two ways: as a construction and as a lexical rule. Although both formalizations are possible, the construction more straightforwardly captures the most interesting aspect of the DMC: the fact that the overall meaning cannot be tied to any one of its individual parts. |
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This article appears in Journal of Linguistics Vol. 38, Issue 2, which you can read on Cambridge's site . |
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