The semantic evolution of Type II-CPs
Eva Berlage · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2025
In this chapter, I discuss the semantic evolution of Type II-CPs. As in Section 6.1, I first explore whether CPs that have morphologically and semantically related simple verbs pattern differently from those that have only morphologically related simple verbs (Section 7.1). In a next step, I turn to an in-depth analysis of those CPs containing the light verbs take (Section 7.1.1) and make (Section 7.1.2), respectively. Other factors that may impinge on the evolution of the CPs are the frequencies of the light verbs (discussed in Section 7.2) and the frequencies of the head nouns outside the CPs (being the topic of Section 7.3). The chapter is rounded off by a synthesis, which gives the most important findings and looks at the prediction strength that can be assigned to the simple verbs.