Pragmatic Strengthening and the Meaning of Complement Constructions: The Case of Like and Love with the to-Infinitive  

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Cuyckens, Hubert ; Smet, Hendrik de

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of English Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 33 no. 1 (Mar. 2005), page 3-34.
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The meaning of complement constructions is generally thought of as determined by the interaction of the semantics of the complement clause with the meaning of the complement-taking verb. In the case of 'like/love + to-infinitive', however, the meaning of the complement construction has been affected by a process of pragmatic strengthening and subjectification. As a result, 'like/love + to-infinitive' has developed aspectual and epistemic uses that can no longer be explained from the semantic interaction of the pattern's component parts but that arise as speaker-based conversational implicatures in particular discourse contexts. Using corpus data, the authors show that this account is in accordance with a number of peculiarities in the present-day use of the constructions and with attested historical fact. More generally, the development of the constructions 'like/love + to-infinitive' can be seen as an instance of incipient grammaticalization with reflexes in the semantic, phonological, and morphosyntactic characteristics of the constructions.

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