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A Usage-Based Approach to Spanish Verbs of ‘Becoming‘

Bybee, Joan, Eddington, David·2006·Language
DOI 10.1353/lan.2006.0081
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A usage-based analysis of four constructions in Spanish, each with a different verb meaning ‘become’ used with an animate subject and an adjective, provides evidence for exemplar representations of constructions, with analogy to these representations accounting for productive use. We analyze 423 tokens from spoken and written corpora, which we take to represent a subset of a speaker's experience with these constructions. The analysis, based on token frequency and semantic similarity, leads to the organization of tokens with two of the verbs into dense clusters of semantically related adjectives centered on a high-frequency exemplar. The other two verbs are used with more diverse sets of adjectives. We supplement the initial analysis with an experiment in which speakers were asked to rate the semantic similarity of pairs of adjectives. When subjected to multidimensional scaling, the results of the experiment support the initial analysis. We argue that novel instances of verb + adjective sequences are based on analogies to previous experience and not on rules that refer to abstract features. In a second experiment, speakers judged the acceptability of sentences taken from the corpora; the results showed that high-frequency expressions and expressions semantically similar to the high-frequency ones lead to an expression being judged more acceptable. Overall the results support exemplar representations, which are heavily based on usage experience.

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Authors
Bybee, J., & Eddington, D.
Venue
Language
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2006-06
Volume
82
Issue
2
Pages
323-355
ISSN
  • 0097-8507 (ISSN-L)
  • 1535-0665
DOI
10.1353/lan.2006.0081
OpenAlex
W2084063120
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405
References
51
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66.97
Type
journal article
Language
en
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