Commercial event verbs in Spanish : : a corpus based study

Abstract: This work presents the analysis of Spanish verbs related to commercial events – vender ‘to sell’, comprar ‘to buy’, etc. –. We follow Fillmore’s proposal (1977) that the different constructional patterns of verbs related to the same semantic domain have the same cognitive frame as the background. By means of a corpus based study we show that the four participants of the commercial event frame – the seller, the buyer, the goods and the money –, are semantically and syntactically productive. We claim that they are verbal arguments and should be part of a semantic level different from the cognitive frame and from the syntactic frames that only include the obligatory arguments. That level is equivalent to RRG logical structures

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Spanisch, Portugiesisch
• Keyword: Argumentstruktur ; Frame-Semantik ; Thematische Relation ; Role and Reference Grammar

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Freiburg
• (who): Universität
• (when): 2019
• Creator: Ibáñez, Sergio

Further information

• DOI: 10.6094/UNIFR/17448
• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-174486
• Rights: Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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