I hope they don't get forgotten". A descriptive corpus-based approach to get-passives with verbs of cognition in English

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It is widely held in the literature that English get-passives are only found with dynamic predicates, stative verbs being excluded from it. However, based on an extensive corpusbased analysis of occurrences with the verbs forget, know, remember, understand and believe, this article shows that the get-passive with stative verbs of cognition, although infrequent, does occur in English. The so-called cognitive get-passive is then examined in relation to the formal, semantic and pragmatic properties commonly claimed to define central get-passives with dynamic verbs. The analysis reveals, on the one hand, that these features are not equally relevant in the characterisation of these sentences and, on the other, that there exist strong interconnections between them and the lexical properties of the verbs analysed.
En los estudios sobre la pasiva con get en inglés, la idea de que esta construcción solo admite verbos dinámicos, no siendo aceptables las oraciones formadas con verbos estativos, está ampliamente extendida. No obstante, a partir del análisis de un extenso corpus de pasivas con get con los verbos forget, know, remember, understand y believe, este estudio demuestra que esta estructura, aunque infrecuente, es posible en inglés con verbos estativos de cognición. Asimismo, la construcción se analiza en relación con las características formales, semánticas y pragmáticas que distinguen a la pasiva con get prototípica. El análisis revela, por un lado, que estas propiedades no presentan la misma relevancia en la caracterización de estas oraciones y, por otro, que existen fuertes conexiones entre ellas y los rasgos léxicos de los verbos analizados.

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González Romero, L. (2021). I hope they don’t get forgotten. A descriptive corpus-based approach to get-passives with verbs of cognition in English. Philologica Canariensia, 65–94. DOI: https://doi.org/10.20420/phil.can.2021.376

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