Shaping Information: Transitive Structures as Means of Expression of Existence/Appearance (Book of Abstracts)
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
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| Description | The present corpus-based paper proposes to shed light on the Presentation Sentences that are realized by means of SVO structures, in which the transitional verb is, unlike most other cases of presentation, transitive (cf. Robbers attacked him). In such sentences the interpretation difficulties namely arise from the use of the active transitive constructions with a context-independent subject (S/Rh - V/Trans - O/Th). The principal obstacle in FSP analysis is related to an obvious clash of the FSP functions with the dynamic semantic function of the complement. Whereas in the case of other sentence elements we observe clear correspondence in this respect (Th functions: Setting, Bearer of Quality; Rh functions: Phenomenon, Specification), in the cases tackled above there is a discrepancy between the lexical-semantic relations of the verb and its complement, which is the participant affected by the action. |