"I Hope They Don't Get Forgotten". A Descriptive Corpus-Based Approach to Get-Passives With Verbs of Cognition in English

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https://doi.org/10.20420/Phil.Can.2021.376

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langue anglaise, analyse de corpus, voix passive, passive avec get, verbes avec cognition

Résumé

Dans les études sur le passif avec get en anglais, l'idée que cette construction n'admet que des verbes dynamiques, et que les phrases formées avec des verbes statifs ne sont pas acceptables, est largement répandue. Cependant, sur la base de l'analyse d'un vaste corpus de passives avec get avec les verbes forget, know, remember, understand et believe, cette étude montre que cette structure, bien que peu fréquente, est possible en anglais avec des verbes statifs cognitifs. La construction est également analysée par rapport aux caractéristiques formelles, sémantiques et pragmatiques qui distinguent le passif prototypique avec get. L'analyse révèle, d'une part, que ces propriétés ne sont pas également pertinentes dans la caractérisation de ces phrases et, d'autre part, qu'il existe de fortes connexions entre elles et les caractéristiques lexicales des verbes analysés.

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Cet article fait partie d'un projet de recherche financé par le Fonds européen de développement régional (FEDER) et le gouvernement régional d'Andalousie [Code du projet : UPO-1254742].

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Biographie de l'auteur

Luisa González Romero, Universidad de Huelva

Luisa González Romero est titulaire d'un doctorat en philologie anglaise et est maîtresse de conférences à l'Universidad de Huelva (Espagne), où elle donne des cours de syntaxe anglaise et de linguistique théorique. Elle a participé à trois projets de R&D et ses principaux domaines de recherche sont la grammaire contrastive anglais-espagnol et la linguistique de corpus.

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2021-05-23

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González Romero, L. (2021). "I Hope They Don’t Get Forgotten". A Descriptive Corpus-Based Approach to Get-Passives With Verbs of Cognition in English. Philologica Canariensia, 27, 65–94. https://doi.org/10.20420/Phil.Can.2021.376

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