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Research paper thumbnail of Comparative semantic analysis of "manner of killing" verbs in English and Polish

Research paper thumbnail of On the inherent semantic meaning of double object Latinate verbs in English in modern and historical perspective *

Questions and Answers in Linguistics, 2013

This paper shows the realization of arguments of Latinate double object verbs and an analysis of ... more This paper shows the realization of arguments of Latinate double object verbs and an analysis of their inherent semantic meaning in the Late Middle English and early Modern English periods, hence in the time-span when they were borrowed into English. The main aim of this paper is to show that although Latinate verbs occur in a construction with what seems to be an allative preposition, not all of them lexicalize movement in the inherent meanings. In contrast, some Latinate verbs lexicalize only a caused possession. What is more, this paper shows that the caused possession Latinate verbs select a different variant of prepositional object construction than the one selected by Latinate verbs lexicalizing movement.

Research paper thumbnail of Syntax of load verbs in Old English

Constraints on Structure and Derivation in Syntax, Phonology and Morphology, 2017

The paper provides evidence for the Lexicalist approach (Krifka 1999; Levin 1993; Levin and Rappa... more The paper provides evidence for the Lexicalist approach (Krifka 1999; Levin 1993; Levin and Rappaport Hovav 2005, among others) to diathesis alternation, which claims that the syntactic variants in alternation are not syntactically related and that they realise different lexical meanings of a verb. The analysis presented in the paper shows the syntactic realisation patterns of load verbs in Old English and examines the core meaning of the verbs in the syntactic variants of locative alternation in that period.

Research paper thumbnail of On the inherent semantic meaning of double object Latinate verbs in English in modern and historical perspective

Questions and Answers in Linguistics, 2015

This paper shows the realization of arguments of Latinate double object verbs and an analysis of ... more This paper shows the realization of arguments of Latinate double object verbs and an analysis of their inherent semantic meaning in the Late Middle English and early Modern English periods, hence in the time-span when they were borrowed into English. The main aim of this paper is to show that although Latinate verbs occur in a construction with what seems to be an allative preposition, not all of them lexicalize movement in the inherent meanings. In contrast, some Latinate verbs lexicalize only a caused possession. What is more, this paper shows that the caused possession Latinate verbs select a different variant of prepositional object construction than the one selected by Latinate verbs lexicalizing movement.

Research paper thumbnail of ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PREPOSITIONAL OBJECT CONSTRUCTION WITH GIVE VERBS, MOTION VERBS AND LATINATE VERBS IN ENGLISH

Volume 10 – Outposts of Historical Corpus Linguistics: From the Helsinki Corpus to a Proliferation of Resources, 2012

This study takes a closer look at the development of a prepositional object construction selected... more This study takes a closer look at the development of a prepositional object construction selected by give verbs and motion verbs in OE and ME. Specifically, it shows that with the erosion of the morphological case system this construction started to develop two underlying variants of meaning. Each variant was determined by lexical meaning of a verb. As a result, the variant with give verbs realized a caused possession meaning, while the variant with motion verbs realized a caused motion meaning. Next, the analysis reassesses the approaches to Latinate double object verbs and proposes a new perspective on approaching their lexical meaning realization in the prepositional object construction.

Research paper thumbnail of P A G E P R O O F S © J O H N B E N J A M I N S P U B L I S H I N G C O M P A N Y The locative alternation with spray/load verbs in Old English

Historical Linguistics 2015: Selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, 27-31 July 2015, 2019

This paper investigates the locative alternation with spray/load verbs in Old English and the mea... more This paper investigates the locative alternation with spray/load verbs in Old English and the meanings associated with their syntactic variants. The main question addressed is whether in Old English spray/load verbs had the same argument structure realizations as their descendants today. It is shown that not all verbs investigated licensed the locative alternation.

Research paper thumbnail of On the inherent semantic meaning of double object Latinate verbs in English in modern and historical perspective

This paper shows the realization of arguments of Latinate double object verbs and an analysis of ... more This paper shows the realization of arguments of Latinate double object verbs and an analysis of their inherent semantic meaning in the Late Middle English and early Modern English periods, hence in the time-span when they were borrowed into English. The main aim of this paper is to show that although Latinate verbs occur in a construction with what seems to be an allative preposition, not all of them lexicalize movement in the inherent meanings. In contrast, some Latinate verbs lexicalize only a caused possession. What is more, this paper shows that the caused possession Latinate verbs select a different variant of prepositional object construction than the one selected by Latinate verbs lexicalizing movement.

Research paper thumbnail of P A G E P R O O F S © J O H N B E N J A M I N S P U B L I S H I N G C O M P A N Y The locative alternation with spray/load verbs in Old English

This paper investigates the locative alternation with spray/load verbs in Old English and the mea... more This paper investigates the locative alternation with spray/load verbs in Old English and the meanings associated with their syntactic variants. The main question addressed is whether in Old English spray/load verbs had the same argument structure realizations as their descendants today. It is shown that not all verbs investigated licensed the locative alternation.

Research paper thumbnail of Comparative semantic analysis of "manner of killing" verbs in English and Polish

Research paper thumbnail of On the inherent semantic meaning of double object Latinate verbs in English in modern and historical perspective *

Questions and Answers in Linguistics, 2013

This paper shows the realization of arguments of Latinate double object verbs and an analysis of ... more This paper shows the realization of arguments of Latinate double object verbs and an analysis of their inherent semantic meaning in the Late Middle English and early Modern English periods, hence in the time-span when they were borrowed into English. The main aim of this paper is to show that although Latinate verbs occur in a construction with what seems to be an allative preposition, not all of them lexicalize movement in the inherent meanings. In contrast, some Latinate verbs lexicalize only a caused possession. What is more, this paper shows that the caused possession Latinate verbs select a different variant of prepositional object construction than the one selected by Latinate verbs lexicalizing movement.

Research paper thumbnail of Syntax of load verbs in Old English

Constraints on Structure and Derivation in Syntax, Phonology and Morphology, 2017

The paper provides evidence for the Lexicalist approach (Krifka 1999; Levin 1993; Levin and Rappa... more The paper provides evidence for the Lexicalist approach (Krifka 1999; Levin 1993; Levin and Rappaport Hovav 2005, among others) to diathesis alternation, which claims that the syntactic variants in alternation are not syntactically related and that they realise different lexical meanings of a verb. The analysis presented in the paper shows the syntactic realisation patterns of load verbs in Old English and examines the core meaning of the verbs in the syntactic variants of locative alternation in that period.

Research paper thumbnail of On the inherent semantic meaning of double object Latinate verbs in English in modern and historical perspective

Questions and Answers in Linguistics, 2015

This paper shows the realization of arguments of Latinate double object verbs and an analysis of ... more This paper shows the realization of arguments of Latinate double object verbs and an analysis of their inherent semantic meaning in the Late Middle English and early Modern English periods, hence in the time-span when they were borrowed into English. The main aim of this paper is to show that although Latinate verbs occur in a construction with what seems to be an allative preposition, not all of them lexicalize movement in the inherent meanings. In contrast, some Latinate verbs lexicalize only a caused possession. What is more, this paper shows that the caused possession Latinate verbs select a different variant of prepositional object construction than the one selected by Latinate verbs lexicalizing movement.

Research paper thumbnail of ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PREPOSITIONAL OBJECT CONSTRUCTION WITH GIVE VERBS, MOTION VERBS AND LATINATE VERBS IN ENGLISH

Volume 10 – Outposts of Historical Corpus Linguistics: From the Helsinki Corpus to a Proliferation of Resources, 2012

This study takes a closer look at the development of a prepositional object construction selected... more This study takes a closer look at the development of a prepositional object construction selected by give verbs and motion verbs in OE and ME. Specifically, it shows that with the erosion of the morphological case system this construction started to develop two underlying variants of meaning. Each variant was determined by lexical meaning of a verb. As a result, the variant with give verbs realized a caused possession meaning, while the variant with motion verbs realized a caused motion meaning. Next, the analysis reassesses the approaches to Latinate double object verbs and proposes a new perspective on approaching their lexical meaning realization in the prepositional object construction.

Research paper thumbnail of P A G E P R O O F S © J O H N B E N J A M I N S P U B L I S H I N G C O M P A N Y The locative alternation with spray/load verbs in Old English

Historical Linguistics 2015: Selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, 27-31 July 2015, 2019

This paper investigates the locative alternation with spray/load verbs in Old English and the mea... more This paper investigates the locative alternation with spray/load verbs in Old English and the meanings associated with their syntactic variants. The main question addressed is whether in Old English spray/load verbs had the same argument structure realizations as their descendants today. It is shown that not all verbs investigated licensed the locative alternation.

Research paper thumbnail of On the inherent semantic meaning of double object Latinate verbs in English in modern and historical perspective

This paper shows the realization of arguments of Latinate double object verbs and an analysis of ... more This paper shows the realization of arguments of Latinate double object verbs and an analysis of their inherent semantic meaning in the Late Middle English and early Modern English periods, hence in the time-span when they were borrowed into English. The main aim of this paper is to show that although Latinate verbs occur in a construction with what seems to be an allative preposition, not all of them lexicalize movement in the inherent meanings. In contrast, some Latinate verbs lexicalize only a caused possession. What is more, this paper shows that the caused possession Latinate verbs select a different variant of prepositional object construction than the one selected by Latinate verbs lexicalizing movement.

Research paper thumbnail of P A G E P R O O F S © J O H N B E N J A M I N S P U B L I S H I N G C O M P A N Y The locative alternation with spray/load verbs in Old English

This paper investigates the locative alternation with spray/load verbs in Old English and the mea... more This paper investigates the locative alternation with spray/load verbs in Old English and the meanings associated with their syntactic variants. The main question addressed is whether in Old English spray/load verbs had the same argument structure realizations as their descendants today. It is shown that not all verbs investigated licensed the locative alternation.