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T1 Women writers in the 18th century : the semantics of motion in their choice of perfect auxiliaries
A1 Calvo Cortés, Nuria
A2 Kytö, Merja
A2 Smitterberg, Erik
AB ABSTRACT: The present study analyses perfect auxiliaries combined with a set of verbs that semantically encode an idea of motion, either physical or metaphorical (arrived, become, come, departed, entered, fallen, gone, got, grown, passed, returned and run) in a corpus of eight novels written by four women in the 18th century, Burney, Inchbald, Radcliffe and Wollstonecraft. The focus is on whether the semantics of the components of motion situations conditioned their choice of auxiliary, and on whether there are differences within the texts depending on where the perfect structures appear, in the narration or in the dialogue. The conclusion indicates that the semantics of motion situations, particularly the different types of FIGURE and GROUND, may have conditioned their choices.
PB John Benjamins Publishing Company
SN 9789027205087 (Hardbound)
SN 9789027261434 (e-Book)
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/132565
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/132565
LA eng
NO Calvo Cortés, Nuria. «Women writers in the 18th century : the semantics of motion in their choice of perfect auxiliaries». 2020. Late Modern English : Novel encounters, editado por Merja Kytö y Erik Smitterberg, vol. 214, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 203-18, https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.214.09cal. Studies in Language Companion Series.
DS Docta Complutense
RD 8 jun 2026