[Corpora-List] VERB into VERBing

[Stefan Th. Gries]

Dear colleagues

[apologies for multiple postings!]

A colleague and I are currently working on the construction exemplified in
(1)

(1)    a.    He can trick the doctor into giving him an alibi. (BNC:FF0)
    b.    They were forced into formulating an opinion. (BNC:CF4)
    c.    He talked me into staying two more days. (BNC:CCW)

Obviously, the common elements are 'V into V-ing' and we also seem to
remember that this construction has been referred to as 'into-causative.' We
already have collected enough examples for our analysis, but, apart from a
cursory treatment of this construction in Hunston and Francis (2000)
'Pattern Grammar', we do not know of any literature dealing with this
construction. Can anybody please point us to previous works on this
construction? I'll post a summary later. Thanks a lot in advance.


Stefan Th. Gries
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IFKI, Southern Denmark University
http://people.freenet.de/Stefan_Th_Gries
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