SAYING SOMETHING FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE: CONSTRUCTIONAL COMPATIBILITY AND CONSTRUCTIONAL FAMILIES

Abstract

This paper explores the compatibility of a group of speech predicates (i.e.speech verbs used to saying something for a particular purpose or with a specific result) with six constructional patterns (i.e.transitive construction, that-construction, motion construction, caused-motion construction, way construction, and resultative construction).In so doing, the present corpus-based research offers additional evidence in support of the hypothesis that constructional compatibility is semantically and pragmatically grounded.It is further argued that lexico-constructional compatibility can be either blocked or licensed by the different internal and external constraints at work in each concrete subsumption process.Finally, we point to the need of distinguishing between central and more peripheral instances of the same grammatical construction.In most cases, peripheral members will be shown to be metonymic extensions, thus providing yet another case in favor of metonymic links as a relevant type of inheritance link in the configuration of constructional families.

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