Polysemy in syntax: ditransitive construction
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2025-11-27
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Polysemy in syntax: ditransitive construction
Just as lexical and morphological categories exhibit polysemy, so do syntactic categories. For instance, consider the ditransitive construction, discussed by Goldberg (1995). This construction has the following syntax:
The ditransitive construction also has a range of conventional abstract meanings associated with it, which Goldberg characterises in the terms shown in (22). Note for the time being that terms like AGENT PATIENT and RECIPI ENT are labels for ‘semantic roles’, a topic to which we return in Part III of the book.
While each of the abstract senses associated with ‘ditransitive’ syntax are dis tinct, they are clearly related: they all concern volitional transfer, although the nature of the transfer, or the conditions associated with the transfer, vary from sense to sense. We will return to discuss constructions like these in more detail in Part III of the book.
In sum, as we saw for categorisation, cognitive linguists argue that polysemy is a phenomenon common to ‘distinct’ areas of language. Both ‘fuzzy’ categories and polysemy, then, are characteristics that unite all areas of human language and thus enable generalisation within the cognitive linguistics framework.
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