Accounting for Causal Constructions within the Framework of the Lexical Constructional Model

  1. Andreea Rosca
Revista:
Atlantis: Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos

ISSN: 0210-6124

Año de publicación: 2014

Volumen: 36

Número: 1

Páginas: 51-69

Tipo: Artículo

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Resumen

Este artículo se propone examinar las construcciones de causalidad, centrándose en una clase verbal en particular, a saber, los verbos de cambio de estado específico. El paso más importante consiste en encontrar un marco teórico capaz de dar cuenta del complejo comportamiento sintáctico de estos verbos y de lograr un equilibrio entre las configuraciones de bajo y alto nivel. El presente estudio también demuestra que los constrictores externos formulados por el Modelo Léxico Construccional constituyen herramientas analíticas útiles para la subsunción de esta clase verbal en la construcción intransitiva de causalidad. Los constrictores externos se refieren a mecanismos cognitivos como la metáfora y la metonimia de alto nivel. Estos producen un cambio en la perspectiva de un predicado que le permite subsumirse fácilmente en una construcción dada.

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