The semantic network of causative MAKE
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The verb MAKE is a one of the most intriguing verbs in the English language. Not only does it occur in various contexts and situations, but it also conveys a cluster of meanings, depending on the context of its use. Rather than dealing with all uses and meanings of MAKE, I will devote this paper to the study of the semantics of causative MAKE, that is the uses of MAKE with the complementation pattern: [NP VP NP VP].1 Drawing upon a corpus study of the occurrences of causative MAKE in the British component of the International Corpus of English, this paper challenges the widely-shared assumption that MAKE is a coercive verb, and highlights the polysemous nature of causative MAKE, which expresses a cluster of semantic values, depending on the lexical and conceptual properties of the causative situation.
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تاریخ انتشار 2012