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Semantic and pragmatic constraints on the English get-passive
- Author(s): Pilar Guerrero Medina
- Source: Deconstructing Constructions , pp 271-294
- Publication Date January 2009
This article focuses on the so-called get-passive, frequently regarded as a problematic construction in the linguistic literature. It is my contention that a lexically-based approach is insufficient to account for the appropriateness of the get-passive, since pragmatic and contextual factors are also crucial to ascertain its acceptability. Basing my discussion on corpus data, I will analyze how the semantics of the get-passive interacts with the semantic properties of verbs from five semantic types that can be integrated within the construction:
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