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The Semantics of Syntactic Choice an Analysis of English Emotion Verbs.

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Title/Author:	The Semantics of Syntactic Choice an Analysis of English Emotion Verbs./
Author:	Grafmiller, Jason.
Description:	1 online resource (321 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-04A.
Subject:	Linguistics. -
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ISBN:	9798662530126

The Semantics of Syntactic Choice an Analysis of English Emotion Verbs.
Grafmiller, Jason.

The Semantics of Syntactic Choice an Analysis of English Emotion Verbs. - 1 online resource (321 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references

Psychological verbs ("psych-verbs'') such as admire, amaze, fear, and frighten, have long been known to exhibit marked syntactic behavior in many languages. This behavior has inspired numerous analyses which assume that there is a unified explanation for the observed patterns. In this dissertation, I focus on the more problematic class of psych-verbs, the so-called Object-Experiencer (Obj-Exp) verbs (e.g. amaze, depress, frighten, fascinate) and argue, as some others have, that the explanation for their unusual character is primarily semantic in nature, and can be traced back to the ways in which humans conceptualize psychological events and processes. It is commonly argued that the special behavior of these verbs obtains only in their stative and/or more controversially non-agentive readings.Through qualitative and quantitative analyses of the semantic properties of Obj-Exp verbs and their arguments, I explore a controversial topic in previous research: the interaction of stativity and passivization among different subclasses of Obj-Exp verbs in English. Analysis of corpus data shows that eventive and stative uses are available to all Obj-Exp verbs in both the active and passive. I show that the choice between active and passive uses is particularly sensitive to the causal role of the stimulus and the nature of the emotion denoted by the verb; together these determine the linguistic construal of the situation as either a causative process or an attitudinal state.Additionally, I examine the variable (un-)acceptability of English Obj-Exp verbs in agentive contexts, and offer experimental and corpus data showing that a given verb's acceptability in an agentive context directly correlates with the tendency for its emotion to be iv associated with a controllable antecedent. These facts argue against analyzing differences in agentivity among psych-verbs at the level of lexical semantic structure, and instead suggest treating agentivity as an inference arising from the total integration of semantic, syntactic, and contextual information in the clause.Overall, the findings of these linguistic studies align well with recent theories developed in the psychological literature on emotion.

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2024

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ISBN: 9798662530126Subjects--Topical Terms:

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The Semantics of Syntactic Choice an Analysis of English Emotion Verbs.
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