Conservatism or the influence of the semantics of motion situation in the choice of perfect auxiliaries in Jane Austen’s letters and novels

ABSTRACT: The present study focuses on the analysis of the choice of either be or have in combination with the past participles of eleven motion verbs («arrive, become, come, enter, fall, go, get, grow, pass, return and run») to form perfective structures in Jane Austen’s letters and novels. She has...

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Autor: Calvo Cortés, Nuria
Tipo de documento: capítulo de livro
Data de publicação:2019
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositório:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglês
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spelling Conservatism or the influence of the semantics of motion situation in the choice of perfect auxiliaries in Jane Austen’s letters and novelsCalvo Cortés, Nuria811.111821.11182.09PerfectAuxiliaryMotion verbsCognitive approachStylisticsFilología inglesaLingüísticaLiteraturaEscritores57 Lingüística5705.13 Sintaxis, Análisis Sintáctico6202 Teoría, Análisis y Crítica LiterariasABSTRACT: The present study focuses on the analysis of the choice of either be or have in combination with the past participles of eleven motion verbs («arrive, become, come, enter, fall, go, get, grow, pass, return and run») to form perfective structures in Jane Austen’s letters and novels. She has previously been considered conservative in her grammar, specifically in relation to her preference for «be» as opposed to «have» in this type of structure. A corpus-based study shows that although she could indeed be considered conservative, the option of the auxiliary might also have been motivated by the different components of the motion situation involved in each instance. The conclusions show that some tendencies can be observed in relation to the behaviour of some of these verbs, despite the low number of occurrences of some of the verbs included in the analysis.John Benjamins Publishing CompanyClaridge, ClaudiaBös, BirteUniversidad Complutense de Madrid20192019-01-0120192019-01-01book parthttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_3248AMhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_ab4af688f83e57aainfo:eu-repo/semantics/bookPartapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/132510reponame:Docta Complutenseinstname:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/1325102026-06-02T12:44:21Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Conservatism or the influence of the semantics of motion situation in the choice of perfect auxiliaries in Jane Austen’s letters and novels
title Conservatism or the influence of the semantics of motion situation in the choice of perfect auxiliaries in Jane Austen’s letters and novels
spellingShingle Conservatism or the influence of the semantics of motion situation in the choice of perfect auxiliaries in Jane Austen’s letters and novels
Calvo Cortés, Nuria
811.111
821.111
82.09
Perfect
Auxiliary
Motion verbs
Cognitive approach
Stylistics
Filología inglesa
Lingüística
Literatura
Escritores
57 Lingüística
5705.13 Sintaxis, Análisis Sintáctico
6202 Teoría, Análisis y Crítica Literarias
title_short Conservatism or the influence of the semantics of motion situation in the choice of perfect auxiliaries in Jane Austen’s letters and novels
title_full Conservatism or the influence of the semantics of motion situation in the choice of perfect auxiliaries in Jane Austen’s letters and novels
title_fullStr Conservatism or the influence of the semantics of motion situation in the choice of perfect auxiliaries in Jane Austen’s letters and novels
title_full_unstemmed Conservatism or the influence of the semantics of motion situation in the choice of perfect auxiliaries in Jane Austen’s letters and novels
title_sort Conservatism or the influence of the semantics of motion situation in the choice of perfect auxiliaries in Jane Austen’s letters and novels
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Calvo Cortés, Nuria
author Calvo Cortés, Nuria
author_facet Calvo Cortés, Nuria
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Claridge, Claudia
Bös, Birte
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv 811.111
821.111
82.09
Perfect
Auxiliary
Motion verbs
Cognitive approach
Stylistics
Filología inglesa
Lingüística
Literatura
Escritores
57 Lingüística
5705.13 Sintaxis, Análisis Sintáctico
6202 Teoría, Análisis y Crítica Literarias
topic 811.111
821.111
82.09
Perfect
Auxiliary
Motion verbs
Cognitive approach
Stylistics
Filología inglesa
Lingüística
Literatura
Escritores
57 Lingüística
5705.13 Sintaxis, Análisis Sintáctico
6202 Teoría, Análisis y Crítica Literarias
description ABSTRACT: The present study focuses on the analysis of the choice of either be or have in combination with the past participles of eleven motion verbs («arrive, become, come, enter, fall, go, get, grow, pass, return and run») to form perfective structures in Jane Austen’s letters and novels. She has previously been considered conservative in her grammar, specifically in relation to her preference for «be» as opposed to «have» in this type of structure. A corpus-based study shows that although she could indeed be considered conservative, the option of the auxiliary might also have been motivated by the different components of the motion situation involved in each instance. The conclusions show that some tendencies can be observed in relation to the behaviour of some of these verbs, despite the low number of occurrences of some of the verbs included in the analysis.
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