Categories and categorial changes: the third syntactical plan and beyond

0457345 - ÚJČ 2016 RIV CZ eng M - Monography Chapter
Richterová, Olga
It Is Surprising: Do Participial Adjectives after Copular Verbs Form a Special Evaluative Construction? A Contrastive View.
Categories and categorial changes: the third syntactical plan and beyond. Olomouc: Palacký University, 2014 - (Martinková, M.; Janebová, M.; Macháček, J.), s. 58-72. ISBN 978-80-244-4287-7
R&D Projects: GA ČR GAP406/11/2021
Keywords : corpus linguistics * construction grammar * contrastive linguistics * participle * -ing forms * parts of speech * categorization
Subject RIV: AI - Linguistics

The chapter combines corpus linguistics, data-driven research and some elements of construction grammar. The larger perspective is that of POS-categories and of their behaviour in specific constructions, drawing on insights by I. Poldauf. The chapter looks into the so-called present participles (-ing forms) in Czech and English, while comparing the "It/That is + V-ing" construction also with its German counterparts. The findings indicate specific - evaluative - semantics to be inherent to this construction in all the investigated languages.
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