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Caused Motion.

The monograph is a contribution to the study of the interactions between semantics, pragmatics, and syntax. Based on British National Corpus and Corpus of Contemporary American English, the study offers an analysis of English causative constructions with intransitive verbs of motion (secondary agent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kudrnáčová, Naděžda
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Brno : Masarykova univerzita, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The monograph is a contribution to the study of the interactions between semantics, pragmatics, and syntax. Based on British National Corpus and Corpus of Contemporary American English, the study offers an analysis of English causative constructions with intransitive verbs of motion (secondary agent constructions), which have been dealt with so far only partially. The monograph is an interdisciplinary work, bringing new insights into cognitive linguistics (especially in the analysis of a causation of motion) and building on insights from psycholinguistics and philosophy of language. The monogr.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (150 pages)
ISBN:9788021076334
802107633X