What is it about?
This article demonstrates that the English Light Verb Construction with GIVE is motivated by generic-level metaphors and metonymies. In the GIVE LVC, GIVE evokes the transfer schema. This schema, serving as the source domain of metaphors, is mapped onto the conceptual structures underlying the nominal complements of the light verb.
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Why is it important?
This study has demonstrated the centrality of metaphor and metonymy in the GIVE LVC and its subtypes, providing a model for analysing other verbo-nominal constructions. By elucidating the cognitive mechanisms that underlie these structures, the research has contributed to a broader and more nuanced understanding of the interplay between linguistic constructions, on the one hand, and conceptual metaphor and metonymy, on the other.
Perspectives
Writing this article with Zbigniew Kopeć (Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa, Poland) has given me the chance to explore the intricate metaphoric and metonymic motivations underlying the English GIVE A VERB construction. The article is a revised and expanded version of our co-authored paper presented at the "2nd Conference on Linguistics Research and Dissemination, Language and Cognition: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives", held at the University of La Rioja in November 2023.We intend to extend our analysis to other light verb constructions, such as the HAVE LVC and its subtypes, and the TAKE LVC and its subtypes.
Dr Pilar Guerrero Medina
University of Córdoba
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This page is a summary of: Metaphoric and metonymic motivation in the Light Verb Construction with GIVE, Complutense Journal of English Studies, October 2025, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM),
DOI: 10.5209/cjes.103616.
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