Year: 1997
Type: article
Abstract: The presenr paper argues that tradirionalist-inspired clainu íe.g., Swan 1980) alleging rhar rhe past paniciple been (to) is in allomorphic altemarion wirh gone (to) are unsubsranriared by the facrs.Firsr, ir is shown rhar gone to and been to are semanrically distincr.Then, ir ispostulated thar thepreposirion to is polysemous in the domain of space and that this polysemy accounrs for irs abiliry to collocare with been.Finally, ir is suggested rhar, unlike gone to, been to belongs ro un idiomatic grammarical construcrion.which helps ro explain rhe differences in distriburion berween rhe rwo apressions.Taken as a whole, rhese argumenrs srrongly indicate thar been (10) is categorized as un instance of be and not as un allomorph of go. KEY WORDS: Been lo,
Author: Joseph Hilferty
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2111914350