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• Title:
  On the brink of-Noun Vs. On the verge of-noun: a distinctive-collexeme analysis
• Creator:
  Wiliński, Jarosław
• Contributor:
  Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities*, Polan;
  jarwili@poczta.onet.pl
• Description:
  This paper uses the terminology of Construction Grammar (Goldberg 1996; 2006) and a corpus-based method to investigate a pair of semantically similar constructions and the lexemes that occur in both of them. The method, referred to as distinctive-collexeme analysis (Gries and Stefanowitsch 2004a), seeks to identify lexemes that exhibit a strong preference for one construction as opposed to another: in other words, to uncover subtle distributional differences between two semantically or functionally near-equivalent constructions. On the basis of the case study dealing with the on the brink of-noun construction versus the on the verge of-noun construction, the paper shows that there are lexemes that prefer one of the investigated patterns over the other. Moreover, the results of the distinctive-collexeme analysis reveal that the frame-constructional semantics is a relevant factor in the choice between these two patterns.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2018.04.03;
  2018.02.06
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Research in Language;15
• Subject:
  construction grammar;
  distinctive collexeme analysis;
  frame semantics;
  Fisher exact test
• Identifier:
  1731-7533;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/24386 ;
  2083-4616;
  10.1515/rela-2017-0024
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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