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Contrastive studies in construction grammar /

The papers in this volume provide a contrastive application of Construction Grammar. By referencing a well-described constructional phenomenon in English, each paper provides a solid foundation for describing and analyzing its constructional counterpart in another language. This approach shows that...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Boas, Hans Christian, 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam, the Netherlands ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010.
Colección:Constructional approaches to language ; v. 10.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Comparing constructions across languages / Hans C. Boas
  • Comparing comparatives: A corpus-based study of comparative constructions in English and Swedish / Martin Hilpert
  • Contrasting constructions in English and Spanish: The influence of semantic, pragmatic, and discourse factors / Francisco Gonzálvez-García
  • Conditional constructions in English and Russian / Olga Gurevich
  • Results, cases, and constructions: Argument structure constructions in English and Finnish / Jaakko Leino
  • A contrastive study of the caused-motion and ditransitive constructions in English and Thai: semantic and pragmatic constraints / Napasri Timyam and Benjamin K. Bergen
  • On expressing measurement and comparison in English and Japanese / Yoko Hasegawa, Russell Lee-Goldman, Kyoko Hirose Ohara, Seiko Fujii and Charles J. Fillmore
  • Revising Talmy's typological classification of complex event constructions / William Croft, Jóhanna Barðdal, Willem Hollmann, Violeta Sotirova, and Chiaki Taoka.