" Movement towards Structure " . Basic Verbs in Learners' Lexicons
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I denna artikel beskrivs en syntaktiskt grundlagd semantisk skiftning hos den svenska verbala pseudosamordningen hålla på och som används som progressivitetsmarkör. I vissa kontexter får den en närmast motsatt betydelse, nämligen ‘hela tiden’. Sökningar i den svenska PAROLE-korpusen samt i en liten svensk-tjeckisk parallellkorpus visar att den nya betydelsen framför allt är kopplad till negativa imperativyttranden men att det samtidigt fi nns en spridningstendens till andra syntaktiska strukturer. Undersökningsresultatet jämförs med innehållet i några svenska referensverk och relateras till Paul Hoppers (1987) idé om ”emergent grammar”. Den observerade semantiska skiftningen förklaras med en allmän mekanism som Heine, Claudi och Hünnemeyer (1991) har defi nierat och kallat ”context-induced reinterpretation“.
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