Lexical classes and the conative construction in Old English
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2009
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Adam Mickiewicz University
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This paper is concerned with the description of the event structure and the meaning components
that motivate the realization of the conative construction within some canonical Old English verb
classes. In the same line as the latest proposals framed within the Lexical Constructional Model,
this kind of description is intended to evidence the essential role of semantic features that are not
necessarily realized in the syntax and thus help elucidate and comprehend lexical-constructional
processes. Besides, this work seeks to establish adequate criteria to identify the conative construction
and provides insights into the distribution of diathetic alternations associated to the conative
construction in Old English.
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Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, vol. 45.1 (2009), pp. 69-90