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This chapter examines the conative construction, e.g., I kicked at the ball, using
collexeme analysis. Previous studies report that strong collexemes of a construction
provide an indication of its central meaning, from which polysemic extensions
are derived. However, the conative construction does not seem to attract
a particular kind of verb that could be used to characterize its central meaning.
To address this problem, a variant of collexeme analysis is suggested that
consists in splitting the verbal distribution into semantic classes and consider
“verb-class-specific” constructions independently. For the three classes tested,
the most significant collexemes are found to be verbs whose inherent meaning
contains the semantic contribution of the construction in that class. Hence, the
most attracted collexemes do provide an indication of the constructional meaning,
albeit specific to each verb class.
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