| Name | BARE SUPERLATIVE OBJECT / OBJOID CONSTRUCTION (SOC) (Object/Objoid: NP) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Semantic function of cxn | AFFECTOR performs the action denoted by the verb in its highest degree / at one’s highest standard or level {intensification}. | ||
| Slots | Slot 1: argument | Slot 2: predicate | Slot 3: argument |
| Semantic role of slots | ÆFFECTOR | MANNER_SUPERLATIVE | |
Syntactic function |
potential subject | unit in predicate | |
| CASA | potential subject | object/objoid | |
| traditional | potential subject | direct object | |
| Syntactic form | NPi | V | NP -> POSSi A-est ∅ |
| Example | (1) … I am going to do my best to smile and celebrate you. (COCA) (2) I tried my best to be helpful. (COCA) (3) Every night, everyone is going out there to play their best and win. (COCA) (4) Groom and bathe your pet so that he/she looks their best. (5) She smiled her sweetest … (COCA) (6) Kate and I have worked our hardest to raise them that way. (COCA) | Collo-profile | |
| Sources for collo-profile | Bouso’s (2024) results of simple collexeme analysis are based on COCA | ||
| Cxn with same formal pattern |
Mono-transitive Construction
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| General cxn-type | Active-2-Argument-Structure Construction | ||
| Construction family | Manner fake-object Resultative Constructions Objoid Constructions AT-Superlative Object/Objoid Constructions | ||
| Literature | Bouso (2021, 2024), Bouso and Hundt (2023), Bouso, Hundt and Van Driessche (2024) | ||
| Annotators/Date | Tamara Bouso and Marianne Hundt 09/2024 | ||