Syntactic Productivity
Syntactic Productivity
Syntactic Productivity
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Summary<br />
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• All three new verbs of instrument of communication are accepted in<br />
all three constructions, although to a varying degree<br />
• The Transfer construction obtained the highest mean score for all<br />
the verbs, presumably on analogy with senda<br />
• Differences in the mean age of the participants who accepted and<br />
rejected the three verbs in the Caused-motion construction, with<br />
younger speakers being more acceptant<br />
• Suggests that the Caused-motion construction is gaining in<br />
productivity in Icelandic, presumably on the basis of the fact that it is<br />
a verb-subclass-specific construction, existing at a considerably<br />
higher level of schematicity than senda<br />
• The boundaries between “analogy” and “productivity” cannot be<br />
maintained, as both give rise to extensibility, to varying degrees<br />
Bergen Jóhanna Barðdal June 5, 2008
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