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Predicative Adjectives and Grammatical-Relational Polysemy: The Role of Metonymic Processes in Motivating Cross-Linguistic Differences

Some of the contrasts between English, on the one hand, and German, Croatian and Hungarian, on the other, concerning the availability of certain constructions with predicative adjectives can be well motivated by the interaction of cognitive and structural factors. Specifically, we claim that grammatical-relational polysemy in these English constructions with predicative adjectives may rest in some cases on metonymic processes. In other words, English is shown to rely heavily on metonymic processes in rearranging its predicate-argument-structures while at the same time keeping formally one and the same form of the predicative expression. The other three languages we are interested in here tend to formally indicate different arrangements in predicate-argument-structure by using formally different predicative expressions.

active zone specification; ascriptive construction; contrastive typology; grammatical constructions; grammatical relations; metonymy; polysemy; predicative adjectives; raising construction; subject

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