Productivity from a Metapragmatic Perspective: Measuring the Diachronic Coverage of the Low Level Lexico-Grammatical Construction Have the N (Body Part/Attitude) to ↔<Metapragmatic Comment> Using the COHA

This paper seeks to address the relation between semantics, pragmatics and productivity of a low level lexico-grammatical construction, Have N (body part/attitude) ↔metapragmatic comment. The question posed is how semantics affects productivity, in generative sense extensibility construction (a form meaning pairing). method identifies specificity variations comment within pragmeme politeness using COHA. Hereafter, we consider measure onomasiological frame based on available pool forms expressing an attitude/emotion, i.e., coverage or attractivity construction. discusses findings, namely, overcome methodological issues relating qualitative rather than quantitative approach constructional architecture relative constructions. experimental small scale corpus study COHA suggests that global view at multiple levels should be pertinent identifying potential