Spanish Poner Meter 266 401 667 Moreover, only cases with three explicit arguments (Causer, Figure and Ground) were retained, including reflexive uses of the Vs, so as to determine the impact of the semantic nature of all participants on the V choice (cf. Section 3.2). As a result, examples with an implicit locative complement (3), and cases of passive voice, where the Causer remains unspecified, are excluded (4): Fue al cementerio a poner unas flores. Go-PST.3SG to.ART.SG churchyard to put-INF some flowers to the churchyard to put some ‘He went flowers.’ Está metido en un grupo con sus amigos. Be-AUX put-PTCP.3SG in a group with his friends is part of a group together with his is put in a group with his ‘He friends.’ (lit. ‘He friends.’) The corpus contains both concrete events of putting (e.g. put the poner el libro en la mesa ‘to book on the and metaphorical location events (e.g. praise poner a alguien por la nubes table’) ‘to put someone in the someone’, lit. ‘to clouds’). 3. Overview of potentially influencing variables This section sets forth five groups of predictor variables that potentially influence the choice of one of both near-synonymous Vs. These variables present both event-related characteristics and inherent properties of the participants. In Section 3.1, we formulate two working hypotheses to be investigated in the corpus, both based on theory. In order to maximally broaden the Cifuentes’ scope of the empirical analysis, Section 3.2 adds three variables, leading towards three additional research questions, which take into account possible deviations of the prototypical putting event.
Spanish Poner Meter 266 401 667 Moreover, only cases with three explicit arguments (Causer, Figure and Ground) were retained, including reflexive uses of the Vs, so as to determine the impact of the semantic nature of all participants on the V choice (cf. Section 3.2). As a result, examples with an implicit locative complement (3), and cases of passive voice, where the Causer remains unspecified, are excluded (4): Fue al cementerio a poner unas flores. Go-PST.3SG to.ART.SG churchyard to put-INF some flowers ‘He went to the churchyard to put some flowers.’ Está metido en un grupo con sus amigos. Be-AUX put-PTCP.3SG in a group with his friends ‘He is part of a group together with his friends.’ (lit. ‘He is put in a group with his friends.’) The corpus contains both concrete events of putting (e.g. poner el libro en la mesa ‘to put the book on the table’) and metaphorical location events (e.g. poner a alguien por la nubes ‘to praise someone’, lit. ‘to put someone in the clouds’). 3. Overview of potentially influencing variables This section sets forth five groups of predictor variables that potentially influence the choice of one of both near-synonymous Vs. These variables present both event-related characteristics and inherent properties of the participants. In Section 3.1, we formulate two working hypotheses to be investigated in the corpus, both based on Cifuentes’ theory. In order to maximally broaden the scope of the empirical analysis, Section 3.2 adds three variables, leading towards three additional research questions, which take into account possible deviations of the prototypical putting event.