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Corpus, cognition and causative constructions /
English causative constructions with cause, get, have and make are often mistakenly presented as (quasi- )synonymous and more or less interchangeable. This book demonstrates the value of corpus linguistics in identifying the syntactic, semantic, lexical and stylistic features that are distinctive fo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Studies in corpus linguistics ;
v. 39. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | English causative constructions with cause, get, have and make are often mistakenly presented as (quasi- )synonymous and more or less interchangeable. This book demonstrates the value of corpus linguistics in identifying the syntactic, semantic, lexical and stylistic features that are distinctive for each of these constructions. It also underlines the usefulness of providing corpus studies with a solid theoretical foundation by showing how corpus linguistics can be fruitfully combined with cognitive linguistics, which is used both as a starting point for the analysis (top-down approach) and as a framework within which to interpret the corpus results (bottom-up approach). From a methodological point of view, the study illustrates the complementarity of corpus and elicitation data, and offers tools and methods that could be used to investigate other syntactic structures. Finally, the book also has a pedagogical dimension in that it examines how the research findings can be applied to foreign language teaching. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 326 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-304) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027288493 9027288496 1282558684 9781282558687 |