"Long", "lust" and "thirst": the development of impersonal verbs of Desire in Early Modern English from the perspective of Construction Grammar

The class of verbs of Desire comprises a few verbs, such as "long", "lust" or "thirst", whose syntax and semantics have undergone important changes in the course of the history of the English language. These three verbs are attested in earlier English as impersonal verb...

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Author: Castro Chao, Noelia
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Publication Date:2022
Country:España
Institution:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
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spelling "Long", "lust" and "thirst": the development of impersonal verbs of Desire in Early Modern English from the perspective of Construction GrammarCastro Chao, Noelia811.111'367.625811.111'367811.111'361811.111'37811.111-112Construction GrammarImpersonal constructionPrepositional verbSyntactic changeVerbs of DesireFilología inglesaLingüística5702 Lingüística Diacrónica5702.01 Lingüística Histórica5705.13 Sintaxis, Análisis Sintáctico5705.08 SemánticaThe class of verbs of Desire comprises a few verbs, such as "long", "lust" or "thirst", whose syntax and semantics have undergone important changes in the course of the history of the English language. These three verbs are attested in earlier English as impersonal verbs, that is, verbs occurring in impersonal constructions characterised by the lack of a grammatical subject. Impersonal constructions began to decrease in frequency between 1400 and 1500, and their loss brought about profound changes in the grammar of verbs of Desire. In this paper, I explore the development of "long", "lust" and "thirst" as prepositional verbs in the Early Modem English period (1500-1700), based on corpus data retrieved from "EEBOCorp 1.0". Results show that, after the general loss of impersonal pattems, NP complements were superseded by prepositional complements. Within the framework of Construction Grammar, this finding may be interpreted as the result of a semantic mismatch between lexical and constructional meaning.Editorial de la Universidad de CantabriaGallardo del Puerto, FranciscoCamus Camus, María del CarmenGonzález López, Jesús ÁngelUniversidad Complutense de Madrid20222022-01-0120222022-01-01book parthttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_3248VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPartapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/102050reponame:Docta Complutenseinstname:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/1020502026-06-02T12:44:21Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv "Long", "lust" and "thirst": the development of impersonal verbs of Desire in Early Modern English from the perspective of Construction Grammar
title "Long", "lust" and "thirst": the development of impersonal verbs of Desire in Early Modern English from the perspective of Construction Grammar
spellingShingle "Long", "lust" and "thirst": the development of impersonal verbs of Desire in Early Modern English from the perspective of Construction Grammar
Castro Chao, Noelia
811.111'367.625
811.111'367
811.111'361
811.111'37
811.111-112
Construction Grammar
Impersonal construction
Prepositional verb
Syntactic change
Verbs of Desire
Filología inglesa
Lingüística
5702 Lingüística Diacrónica
5702.01 Lingüística Histórica
5705.13 Sintaxis, Análisis Sintáctico
5705.08 Semántica
title_short "Long", "lust" and "thirst": the development of impersonal verbs of Desire in Early Modern English from the perspective of Construction Grammar
title_full "Long", "lust" and "thirst": the development of impersonal verbs of Desire in Early Modern English from the perspective of Construction Grammar
title_fullStr "Long", "lust" and "thirst": the development of impersonal verbs of Desire in Early Modern English from the perspective of Construction Grammar
title_full_unstemmed "Long", "lust" and "thirst": the development of impersonal verbs of Desire in Early Modern English from the perspective of Construction Grammar
title_sort "Long", "lust" and "thirst": the development of impersonal verbs of Desire in Early Modern English from the perspective of Construction Grammar
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Castro Chao, Noelia
author Castro Chao, Noelia
author_facet Castro Chao, Noelia
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Gallardo del Puerto, Francisco
Camus Camus, María del Carmen
González López, Jesús Ángel
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv 811.111'367.625
811.111'367
811.111'361
811.111'37
811.111-112
Construction Grammar
Impersonal construction
Prepositional verb
Syntactic change
Verbs of Desire
Filología inglesa
Lingüística
5702 Lingüística Diacrónica
5702.01 Lingüística Histórica
5705.13 Sintaxis, Análisis Sintáctico
5705.08 Semántica
topic 811.111'367.625
811.111'367
811.111'361
811.111'37
811.111-112
Construction Grammar
Impersonal construction
Prepositional verb
Syntactic change
Verbs of Desire
Filología inglesa
Lingüística
5702 Lingüística Diacrónica
5702.01 Lingüística Histórica
5705.13 Sintaxis, Análisis Sintáctico
5705.08 Semántica
description The class of verbs of Desire comprises a few verbs, such as "long", "lust" or "thirst", whose syntax and semantics have undergone important changes in the course of the history of the English language. These three verbs are attested in earlier English as impersonal verbs, that is, verbs occurring in impersonal constructions characterised by the lack of a grammatical subject. Impersonal constructions began to decrease in frequency between 1400 and 1500, and their loss brought about profound changes in the grammar of verbs of Desire. In this paper, I explore the development of "long", "lust" and "thirst" as prepositional verbs in the Early Modem English period (1500-1700), based on corpus data retrieved from "EEBOCorp 1.0". Results show that, after the general loss of impersonal pattems, NP complements were superseded by prepositional complements. Within the framework of Construction Grammar, this finding may be interpreted as the result of a semantic mismatch between lexical and constructional meaning.
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