The present article proposes a corpus-based study of two near-synonymous verbs in Spanish: the (locative) verbs of putting poner and meter. Starting from the universal principle of linguistic economy, the paper aims to empirically identify potentially influencing variables that determine the native speaker’s choice between the two verbs. It is investigated whether and to what extent the verb choice is governed by a set of variables related to the nature of the placement movement itself and the characteristics of the participants taking part in the event. The difference between the near-synonyms is shown to be mainly determined by the direction of the locative movement, the semantic nature of the participants (animacy, concreteness), the reflexiveness of the event, as well as the cognitive construal of the locative event (the possibility of a container-reading).

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衡量西班牙语put动词的近同义程度

本文提出对西班牙语中两个近乎同义的动词进行基于语料库的研究：put poner 和 meter 的（处所）动词。从语言经济学的普遍原则出发，本文旨在根据经验确定可能影响母语者在两个动词之间选择的变量。调查动词选择是否以及在多大程度上受一组变量的控制，这些变量与放置运动本身的性质和参与事件的参与者的特征有关。近同义词之间的差异主要取决于位置运动的方向、参与者的语义性质（生动性、具体性）、事件的反身性、