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标题：THE MIDDLE AND RELATED CONSTRUCTIONS IN ENGLISH
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作者：MAKI SAKAMOTO
期刊名称：ENGLISH LINGUISTICS
印刷版ISSN：0918-3701
电子版ISSN：1884-3107
出版年度：2001
卷号：18
期号：1
页码：86-110
DOI：10.9793/elsj1984.18.86
出版社：Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic
摘要：The purpose of this paper is to show that the middle is semantically related to the unaccusative and the unergative, which exhibit basically the same syntactic form as the middle, namely [NP-V]. By placing the middle in a cognitive network of intransitive constructions, we will attempt to account for the complex nature of the middle. We will show that there are middles structured based on related intransitives, while the middle has its own distinctive meaning and forms a prototype-based category of its own. We will argue that extensions of the network involving the middle are motivated by the Agent-like property of the entity denoted by the subject.
关键词：unaccusative-based middle;action-oriented middle;related intransitive;motivated extension;agency