TY - JOUR AU - Martin, Fabienne AU - Piñón, Christopher PY - 2019/05/12 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Behavior-related unergative verbs JF - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung JA - SuB VL - 20 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/276 SP - 480-496 AB - <p>In languages such as French,  it is possible to derive from common or proper nouns unergative verbs that intuitively describe ways of behaving, for example, <em>diplomatiser </em>‘behave like a diplomat’. This paper focuses on the semantics of these verbs, in particular, on the semantic contribution of the incorporated noun, by looking  at the entailment patterns between the verb (e.g. <em>diplomatiser </em>‘behave like a diplomat’) and the corresponding noun (e.g. <em>être (un/une) </em><em>diplomate</em> ‘be a diplomat’).  The analysis proposed explicitly captures the figurative  reading of <em>être un/une diplomate </em>‘be a diplomat’,  the link between the meaning shift of N in this reading and in <em>diplomatiser </em>‘behave like a diplomat’,  as well as the entailment  patterns observed.</p> ER -