Expressive Object Constructions in English. A Corpus Based Analysis
2014
This article aims to explore the way speakers report verbal and nonverbal communication
in complex constructions of the type “She smiled her agreement” (Levin’s “Reaction Object
Constructions”). These expressive constructions report the manifestation of a mental
state transmitted by means of a sound or gesture. The speaker decodes the message into a
condensed nominal object. The verb denotes the code, or manner of communication. The
analysis of over 3000 corpus examples reveals different syntactic and semantic properties
of this construction.
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