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Unexpected and innovative uses of constructions: is there a need to supplement a dictionary with constructional information?
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- Presented at Dictionaries and Text Corpora session
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Consider the sentences (1a-b), from the TIME Corpus: (1) a ... the others ... bullied him into leaving the jury room. (1928) b ...railroads ... had thumbscrewed the mine operators into thumbscrewing the miners. (1928) (1a) and (1b) illustrate the transitive into -ing pattern, where a matrix verb selects an object and a sentential complement that consists of into and an -ing clause. The paper identifies the transitive into -ing pattern, and then turns to the OED treatment of verbs selecting i...
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- Publication status:
- Not published
- Peer review status:
- Reviewed (other)
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- Language:
- English
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- ora:5004
- Deposit date:
- 2011-02-17
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- Copyright holder:
- Rudanko, J
- Copyright date:
- 2010
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