“¿Dar la mano o darle cuello?” Metaphorical constructions using body parts nouns
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9651.v0i19p220-255Keywords:
Idiomatic phrases, Body parts, Constructional meaning, Frames semanticsAbstract
The verb to give usually combines with body parts nouns to form expressions of metaphorical interpretation. In this paper, we will try to explain how this verb can be constructed with these nouns and what semantic-syntactic implications its construction results entails. The purpose is to go beyond the presupposition that it is about metaphors. We will try to explain this polyconstruction phenomenon from the confluence of three approaches: cognitive linguistics, construction grammar and frame semantics. We argue that the expressions with body parts nouns come from the schematic construction of the verb to give, the transference, which goes through a process of semantic change, but preserves some of the properties of the original construction.
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