Affiliation:
1. Universität Greifswald
Abstract
Abstract
In English, sequences consisting of the verb have, a noun phrase and a past participle vary in meaning. This meaning variation has been discussed both in the context of grammatical description and language change, mostly based on a handful of examples. This study seeks to combine theoretical and methodological approaches from construction grammar and interactional linguistics in the description of this meaning variation. Theoretically, this implies distinguishing between abstracted meaning potential and situated meaning of linguistic elements. Methodologically, this means taking both a coarse-grained view by means of a quantitative corpus-based approach that abstracts over a number of instances and a fine-grained view by means of qualitative analysis of talk-in-interaction.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
Reference51 articles.
1. Semantics as Meaning Determination with Semantic-Epistemic Operations
2. A unified theory of granularity, vagueness, and approximation;Bittner,2001
3. The differentiation of statives and perfects in Early Modern English: The development of the conclusive perfect;Brinton,1994
4. Haben-statives in German