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On Interpreting Construction Schemas : From Action and Motion to Transitivity and Causality.
This volume addresses the constructional variability with transitive and causative verbs from the point of view of their respective action and motion patterns. Drawing on the theoretical advances registered in cognitive approaches to language (Cognitive Grammar, Construction Grammar and space semant...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
Walter de Gruyter,
2008.
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| Colección: | Trends in Linguistics: Studies & Monographs, v. 198.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Table of contents
- Introduction
- A usage-based approach to prototypical transitivity
- Transitivity and referentiality in Spanish and Rumanian
- Transitive verbs with non-accusative alternation in Hebrew: Cross-language comparison with English, German and Spanish
- Unsubcategorized objects in English resultative constructions
- Complex predicates in Basque
- An adversative passive in English: in search of origins
- Verbs of letting: Some cognitive and historical aspects
- Syntactic and semantic integration in the Spanish causative-reflexive construction
- Soft causatives in Spanish
- Two causal alternatives: carry vs. push type constructions in English
- Grammar of "manner of motion" verbs in English and Spanish: between lexicon and syntax
- On the nature of lexicalization patterns: a crosslinguistic inquiry
- The semantics of space: A study of the prefix proin Serbian
- Backmatter.