Discussion Let us now go back to our Hypotheses and Research Questions put forward in Section 3 and relate them to the results. As to Hypothesis 1: most frequently combines with prepositions that mark illative movement, whereas meter does not impose restrictions as to preposition selection. poner our model provides convincing empirical evidence in favor of this hypothesis, based on Cifuentes (1996: 81, 103, 109). According to Cifuentes, behaves like a positional V (like poner colocar ‘to whereas is a movement V with internal direction (just like meter introducir place’), ‘to Indeed, we observed that with illative movements there is a strong preference for introduce’). This was seen both in the type of prepositions, and in the type of Grounds frequently meter. combined with 1) prepositions that most easily combine with express illative meter: meter movement; 2) Grounds most easily combined with are usually containers or can be meter conceived of as a container, contrary to those combined with The container-reading with poner. necessarily implies that the Figure can be moved, as a whole, inside the Ground. Compare meter for instance the selection of the putVs in two sentences with the same Ground manos ‘hands’ (18a)–(18b). The sentence with (18a) evokes the image of the head as a whole disappearing meter between the hands of their owner, who is literally trying to hide his head within his hands. On the contrary, the cup of coffee combined with (18b) can be placed on top of the hands, which poner do not act as a container but more like a support: (18a) Al pronunciar aquella palabra, metió la cabeza […], At.ART.SG. pronounce-INF that word, put-PST.3SG the head […], entre las manos, como abrumado. between the hands, like overwhelmed that word, [...], she put her head within her hands, like ‘While pronouncing overwhelmed.’ (18b) Malena se acercó a él y
Discussion Let us now go back to our Hypotheses and Research Questions put forward in Section 3 and relate them to the results. As to Hypothesis 1: meter most frequently combines with prepositions that mark illative movement, whereas poner does not impose restrictions as to preposition selection. our model provides convincing empirical evidence in favor of this hypothesis, based on Cifuentes (1996: 81, 103, 109). According to Cifuentes, poner behaves like a positional V (like colocar ‘to place’), whereas meter is a movement V with internal direction (just like introducir ‘to introduce’). Indeed, we observed that with illative movements there is a strong preference for meter. This was seen both in the type of prepositions, and in the type of Grounds frequently combined with meter: 1) prepositions that most easily combine with meter express illative movement; 2) Grounds most easily combined with meter are usually containers or can be conceived of as a container, contrary to those combined with poner. The container-reading with meter necessarily implies that the Figure can be moved, as a whole, inside the Ground. Compare for instance the selection of the putVs in two sentences with the same Ground manos ‘hands’ (18a)–(18b). The sentence with meter (18a) evokes the image of the head as a whole disappearing between the hands of their owner, who is literally trying to hide his head within his hands. On the contrary, the cup of coffee combined with poner (18b) can be placed on top of the hands, which do not act as a container but more like a support: (18a) Al pronunciar aquella palabra, […], metió la cabeza At.ART.SG. pronounce-INF that word, […], put-PST.3SG the head entre las manos, como abrumado. between the hands, like overwhelmed ‘While pronouncing that word, [...], she put her head within her hands, like overwhelmed.’ (18b) Malena se acercó a él y
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