35.1746, Books: Lexical reciprocal verbs: Kruitwagen (2024)

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Date: 11-Jun-2024
From: Tessa Arneri [lotdissertations-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: Lexical reciprocal verbs: Kruitwagen (2024)


Title: Lexical reciprocal verbs
Subtitle: A typicality approach
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke
(LOT)
                http://www.lotpublications.nl/
Book URL: https://dx.medra.org/10.48273/LOT0669

Author: Imke Kruitwagen
Paperback: ISBN: 978-94-6093-455-1 Pages: 151 Price: Europe EURO 32.00
Abstract:

Reciprocal verbs alternate between unary collective sentences (Carrie
and Aidan fought), binary sentences (Carrie fought Aidan) and “with”
sentences (Carrie fought with Aidan). There is no agreement in the
literature on the semantic account that properly characterizes the
reciprocal alternation. Results of the experiments that we reported
show that, in contrast to the common assumption in the field, the
reciprocal alternation does not show a unidirectional entailment from
unary reciprocal sentences to the binary reciprocal. In other words:
if it is true that Carrie and Aidan fought, it is not necessarily true
that Carrie fought Aidan and Aidan fought Carrie. The reciprocal
alternation has a more complex semantics, which is not exhausted by
standard logical notions like symmetry. To give a full account of
reciprocal verb meaning, we also need to consider the conceptual
content of the verb and its sensitivity to typicality effects. We
found that in asymmetric events the acceptance of reciprocal sentences
is boosted if participants in the event show the relevant emotion or
intention, for instance ‘being angry’ in case of an event for the verb
‘fight’. We argued that the semantic relation between the different
reciprocal alternates can be accounted for by a Threshold Model, based
on the notion of typicality.The new element in our use of the
Threshold Model is in accounting for the systematic relations between
the argument structure of reciprocal verbs and the conceptual meaning
of the verbs.

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics

Written In: English (eng)



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