Autore
Franceschi, Daniele

Titolo
More on English Aspectual Verbs: a Lexicographic Investigation of Start
Periodico
Textus
Anno: 2020 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 165 - Pagina finale: 182

This paper analyses the lexicographic entries for the verb start in the onlineeditions of two unabridged dictionaries of English, namely the OxfordEnglish Dictionary and the Merriam-Webster Unabridged, as well as in onelearner’s dictionary, i.e. the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary,in order to examine how this highly frequent ingressive aspectualiser istreated in terms of the evolution of its various senses and by contrastingit with its near-synonyms. The study shows that dictionaries need toprovide clearer and finer-grained information about the areas of overlapbetween start, begin, initiate and commence. Although these predicatesshare a similar semantic nucleus and may to a large extent enter the samesyntactic constructions, they differ at a more subtle pragmatic level. Thismeaning dimension does not seem to be appropriately accounted for indictionaries.



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