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Measuring the degree of near-synonymy of Spanish verbs of putting

Author(s) -

Marie Comer,

Renata Enghels,

Clara Vanderschueren

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

functions of language

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.317

H-Index - 22

eISSN - 1569-9765

pISSN - 0929-998X

DOI - 10.1075/fol.23.3.01com

Subject(s) - locative case , animacy , linguistics , event (particle physics) , concreteness , construal level theory , set (abstract data type) , dative case , degree (music) , reading (process) , psychology , computer science , cognitive psychology , social psychology , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , acoustics , programming language

The present article proposes a corpus-based study of two near-synonymous verbs in Spanish: the (locative) verbs of putting poner and meter. Starting from the universal principle of linguistic economy, the paper aims to empirically identify potentially influencing variables that determine the native speaker’s choice between the two verbs. It is investigated whether and to what extent the verb choice is governed by a set of variables related to the nature of the placement movement itself and the characteristics of the participants taking part in the event. The difference between the near-synonyms is shown to be mainly determined by the direction of the locative movement, the semantic nature of the participants (animacy, concreteness), the reflexiveness of the event, as well as the cognitive construal of the locative event (the possibility of a container-reading)

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