Copular verbs of the become type and the expression of 'resulting' meaning in English and in Czech: A contrastive corpus-supported view

Abstract

The article focuses on English resultative copular verbs, considering how the various types of 'becoming' differ from one another in English, how these differences are rendered in the Czech translation, and what the Czech counterparts can suggest about the ways of expressing 'resulting' meaning in English.

Keywords

• resultative copular verbs
• contrastive approach
• English
• Czech
• parallel corpus