Contrastive collostructional analysis: Causative constructions in English and French
(2015) Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik — Vol. 63, n° 3, p. 253-272 (2015)
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- This paper offers a contrastive collostructional analysis of English and French periphrastic causative constructions with make/faire in academic writing. Using data from the British National Corpus (for English) and from Scientext (for French), it investigates the interaction between the constructions and their non-finite verb slot. The (simple and distinctive) collexemes strongly attracted to the make and/or faire causative constructions are grouped into semantic classes, which are compared and help identify the typical meaning(s) of each construction. It appears that the English construction particularly attracts non-volitional verbs describing mental processes and (stimulus subject) perception, while the French construction also attracts verbs of (dis)appearance and verbs expressing a change of state or location. These results contribute to situating the two constructions differently on the conceptual map of causation.
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Gilquin, G. (2015). Contrastive collostructional analysis: Causative constructions in English and French. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 63(3), 253-272. https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2015-0022 (Original work published 2015)