Changes in Psych-verbs: A reanalysis of little v
The present paper examines psych-verbs in the history of English. As is well-known, object experiencers are reanalyzed as subject experiencers in many of the modern European languages. I discuss one such change in detail, namely the change in the verb fear from meaning ‘to frighten, cause to fear’ t...
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oai:doaj.org-article:98b25628de794504b2a923827c327ab92021-11-27T10:47:11ZChanges in Psych-verbs: A reanalysis of little v10.5565/rev/catjl.1541695-68852014-9719https://doaj.org/article/98b25628de794504b2a923827c327ab92014-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/154https://doaj.org/toc/1695-6885https://doaj.org/toc/2014-9719The present paper examines psych-verbs in the history of English. As is well-known, object experiencers are reanalyzed as subject experiencers in many of the modern European languages. I discuss one such change in detail, namely the change in the verb fear from meaning ‘to frighten, cause to fear’ to meaning ‘to fear’. The reason for the change may be the loss of the morphologically overt causative and a change in the set of light verbs. Object experiencers are constantly lost but I show there is also a continual renewal through external borrowing and internal change from physical to mental impact. A last change I discuss is the one where Subject Experiencers are reanalyzed as Agents in a V(oice)P. Elly van GelderenUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelonaarticlepsych-verbexperienceragentcausativereanalysislittle vPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091CAENCatalan Journal of Linguistics, Vol 13 (2014) |
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The present paper examines psych-verbs in the history of English. As is well-known, object experiencers are reanalyzed as subject experiencers in many of the modern European languages. I discuss one such change in detail, namely the change in the verb fear from meaning ‘to frighten, cause to fear’ to meaning ‘to fear’. The reason for the change may be the loss of the morphologically overt causative and a change in the set of light verbs. Object experiencers are constantly lost but I show there is also a continual renewal through external borrowing and internal change from physical to mental impact. A last change I discuss is the one where Subject Experiencers are reanalyzed as Agents in a V(oice)P.
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