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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc Castro Chao, Noelia author 2022 The present study is concerned with the syntactic and semantic development of the impersonal verb "hunger" in Early Modern English. An analysis of corpus data has been carried out on ca. 20 million words drawn from EEBOCorp 1.0 (1473–1700). Results show that, from a semantic perspective, the verb "hunger" undergoes a process of metaphorical extension involving a change from the original meaning ‘to feel hunger’, in the domain of Physical Sensation, to the meaning ‘to desire’, in the domain of Emotion. In this latter sense, the verb becomes predominantly associated with prepositional complements (e.g. 1542, "our hungry soules [...] hunger for y^ word of God"). Also in the course of the Early Modern period, the verb is subject to competition with the adjectival periphrasis "be hungry", especially in the sense ‘to feel hunger’. The article concludes by putting forward hypotheses to explain the motivations for these various developments. Castro Chao, N. «Constructions in Competition: The Development of the Impersonal Verb Hunger and the Adjectival Periphrasis Be Hungry in Early Modern English». Studia Neophilologica, vol. 94, n.o 3, septiembre de 2022, pp. 273-96. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1080/00393274.2020.1851297. 0039-3274 10.1080/00393274.2020.1851297 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/101878 1651-2308 https//doi.org/10.1080/00393274.2020.1851297 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00393274.2020.1851297 https://www.tandfonline.com/ Constructions in competition: The development of the impersonal verb "hunger" and the adjectival periphrasis "be hungry" in Early Modern English