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English mediopassive constructions : a cognitive, corpus-based study of their origin, spread, and current status /
This book provides the first empirical study of the history and spread of mediopassive constructions. It investigates the productivity of the pattern, the spread of the construction in Modern English, and looks into text type-specific preferences for the construction. On a more abstract level, it co...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
2007.
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| Colección: | Language and computers ;
no. 58. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book provides the first empirical study of the history and spread of mediopassive constructions. It investigates the productivity of the pattern, the spread of the construction in Modern English, and looks into text type-specific preferences for the construction. On a more abstract level, it combines the corpus-based description of mediopassive constructions with cognitive linguistic models, drawing largely on notions such as 'prototype', 'family resemblances', 'patch' and 'construction'. The theoretical modelling is largely based on data from real texts. These come from publicly availabl. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 222 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-193) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781429481298 1429481293 9789401203784 9401203784 |