El genitivo agente como la interpretación semántica más prototípica del genitivo inglésun estudio de corpus

  1. Encarnación Almazán Ruiz 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Jaén
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    Universidad de Jaén

    Jaén, España

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Revue:
Lingüística y Literatura

ISSN: 0120-5587

Année de publication: 2021

Titre de la publication: Vol. 42, 79 (2021):ENERO-JUNIO, 2021

Volumen: 42

Número: 79

Pages: 112-131

Type: Article

DOI: 10.17533/UDEA.LYL.N79A06 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Résumé

The English genitive construction [NP’s + N] can be semantically interpreted in several ways, considering not only lexical and semantic factors but also pragmatic ones. The main aim of this paper is to state that the agentive genitive (John’s claim) is more frequent than the possessive (John’s car), despite what has been claimed traditionally. The corpus-based study demonstrates this fact analysing examples of genitive taken from two corpora: The Brown and the Lobtag. In addition to relating the agentive genitive to the nominalization process, a plausible explanation of the frequency of this semantic interpretation is provided.

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