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This book deals with the characterization and history of the
reaction object construction (ROC), as in Pauline smiled her
thanks. The ROC consists of an intransitive verb followed by a
nonprototypical object that expresses a reaction such that the
whole syntactic unit acquires the extended meaning "express X by
V-ing" (e.g. "Pauline expressed her thanks by smiling"). The
hypothesis is put forward that ROCs follow a similar pathway as
other valency-increasing constructions such as the cognate object
construction and the way-construction, occurring first with more
transitive-like verbs and then expanding to intransitives.
Historical corpus evidence from several complementary data sources
confirms this idea and reveals striking parallelisms with the
way-construction.
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