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Contrastive Collostructional Analysis: Causative Constructions in English and French

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Author	Gilquin, Gaëtanelle
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	This paper offers a contrastive collostructional analysis of English and French periphrastic causative constructions with make/faire in academic writing. Using data from the British National Corpus (for English) and from Scientext (for French), it investigates the interaction between the constructions and their non-finite verb slot. The (simple and distinctive) collexemes strongly attracted to the make and/or faire causative constructions are grouped into semantic classes, which are compared and help identify the typical meaning(s) of each construction. It appears that the English construction particularly attracts non-volitional verbs describing mental processes and (stimulus subject) perception, while the French construction preferentially attracts verbs of (dis)appearance and verbs expressing a change of state or location. These results contribute to situating the two constructions differently on the conceptual map of causation.
Related Links	http://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/zaa.2015.63.issue-3/zaa-2015-0022/zaa-2015-0022.xml
Ending Page	272
Page Count	20
Starting Page	253
ISSN	00442305
e-ISSN	21964726
DOI	10.1515/zaa-2015-0022
Journal	Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Issue Number	3
Volume Number	63
Language	English
Publisher	Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Publisher Date	2015-10-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Zeitschrift Für Anglistik Und Amerikanistik Language Studies French Causative Constructions Verbs Attracts Collostructional Analysis Contrastive Collostructional Journal: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Vol- 63
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Linguistics and Language Literature and Literary Theory

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