Open AccessThe family of English cognate object constructions
Author(s) -
Manfred Sailer
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
proceedings of the international conference on head-driven phrase structure grammar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1535-1793
DOI - 10.21248/hpsg.2010.11
Subject(s) - cognate , linguistics , verb , noun phrase , noun , verb phrase , object (grammar) , hierarchy , computer science , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , philosophy , economics , market economy
In the Cognate Object Construction (COC) a typically intransitive verbcombines with a postverbal noun phrase whose head noun is morphologicallyor semantically cognate to the verb. I will argue that English has afamily of COCs which consists of four different types. The COCsshare common core properties but differ with respect to some of theirsyntactic and semantic properties. I will capture the ˋˋcognateness''between the verb and the noun in all COCs by token identities at the levelof their lexical semantic contribution. I will use an inheritancehierarchy on lexical rule sorts to model the family relations among thedifferent COC types.