Casting new light on the CAUSED-MOTION construction: Some evidence from Harry Potter

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1. Introduction Goldberg’s (1995) famous sneeze the napkin off the table example has by itself arguably come to epitomize Construction Grammar (CxG) over the years, and more particularly the constructionist approach to argument structure. It is an example that perfectly illustrates the fact that verbs may occur with arguments that are not subcategorized by the verb itself, thereby making a strong case for the existence of meaningful abstract constructions, namely Argument Structure Constructi...

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