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Argument structure, conceptual metaphor and semantic change

How to succeed in Indo-European without really trying

 | Ghent University
 | Ghent University | Leiden University
 | Ghent University
 | Ghent University | Aberystwyth University
 | Ghent University
Published online: 18 December 2019
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Abstract
In contrast to grammaticalization studies of lexical verbs changing into auxiliaries, the realm of semantic changes associated with lexical verbs is an understudied area of historical semantics. We concentrate on the emergence of verbs of success from more semantically concrete verbs, uncovering six conceptual metaphors which all co-occur with non-canonical encoding of subjects in Indo-European. Careful scrutiny of the relevant data reveals a semantic development most certainly inherited from Indo-European; hence, we reconstruct a dat-‘succeeds’ construction at different levels of schematicity for Proto-Indo-European, including a novel reconstruction of a conceptual metaphor, success is motion forward, and the mapping between this metaphor and the verb-class-specific argument structure construction. Hence, this article offers a systematic analysis of regularity in semantic change, highlighting the importance of predicate and argument structure for lexical semantic developments.
Résumé
Si l’étude de la transformation de verbes lexicaux en verbes auxiliaires est chose fréquente, bien plus rares sont les études les changements sémantiques attestés avec les verbes lexicaux. Reznikova, Tatiana, Ekaterina Rakhilina & Anastasia A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya. 2012. Towards a typology of pain predicates. Linguistics 50(3). 421–465. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar constitue une exception : on y étudie la nature complexe de ce processus, soulignant le rôle de la métaphore et de la métonymie. Nous nous concentrons sur l’origine des verbes de succès issus de verbes aux sens plus concrets. Nous avons découvert six métaphores conceptuelles qui coïncident avec un codage non canonique de sujets en indo-européen. Un examen minutieux des données révèle le développement qui remonte le plus vraisemblablement au patrimoine indo-européen. Par conséquent, nous reconstruisons une construction dat-‘réussir’ à différents niveaux de schématisation pour la langue proto-indo-européenne. Nous proposons aussi une métaphore conceptuelle reconstruite, succes est mouvement en avant, aussi bien que la correspondance entre cette métaphore et la construction à la structure d’argument d’une classe verbale particulière. Cet article propose une analyse systématique des régularités dans les changements sémantiques et souligne l’importance de la structure de prédicat et d’argument pour de tels développements.
Zusammenfassung
Im Vergleich zu den Studien zur Grammatikalisierung von Auxiliarverben aus Vollverben ist innerhalb der historischen Semantik der Bedeutungswandel allein zwischen Vollverben noch wenig untersucht worden. Eine Ausnahme bildet Reznikova, Tatiana, Ekaterina Rakhilina & Anastasia A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya. 2012. Towards a typology of pain predicates. Linguistics 50(3). 421–465. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar, eine Studie zur Komplexität dieses Vorgangs mit besonderem Fokus auf die Rollen von Metapher und Metonymie. Wir beschäftigen uns hier mit der Entstehungvon Verben aus dem Wortfeld „gelingen“ aus konkreteren Verben und decken sechs konzeptuelle Metaphern auf, die allesamt innerhalb einer syntaktischen Konstruktion mit einem im Indoeuropäischen nicht-kanonisch markierten Subjekt auftreten. Eine genaue Untersuchung der relevanten Daten zeigt, dass diese Konstruktion sehr wahrscheinlich indoeuropäisch vererbt ist. Daher rekonstruieren wir für das Urindoeurpäische eine Konstruktion aus „gelingen“ + Dativ mit verschiedenen Graden der Schematizität. Dies beinhaltet die erstmalige Rekonstruktion einer konzeptuellen Metapher, erfolg ist bewegung nach vorne, und die Abbildung dieser Metapher auf die Konstruktion mit verbklassenspezifischer Argumentstruktur. Der vorliegende Aufsatz bietet damit eine systematische Analyse der Regularitäten innerhalb des Bedeutungswandels von Vollverben und unterstreicht dabei die Relevanz der Prädikats- und Argumentstruktur für derartige Entwicklungen.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The dative subject construction
  • 3.Success in Germanic
    • 3.1(Preverb +) Motion (+ Adverb)
    • 3.2Other types of motion conceptualized as success
  • 4.Success in Indo-European
  • 5.Metaphors for success
  • 6.Reconstruction
    • 6.1Proto-Germanic
    • 6.2Proto-Indo-European
  • 7.Summary and conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Abbreviations
  • References
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