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French anticausatives : a diachronic perspective /
Valence alternations, i.e. the use of a given verb in different syntactic patterns, are a well-studied topic in contemporary linguistics. The present book is dedicated to the diachronic development of such valence alternations: How do new ways of encoding valence alternations emerge, how do they spr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) ;
537. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter; Contents; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Anticausatives; 3. The Emergence of the French reflexive anticausative; 4. The Spread of the French reflexive anticausative; 5. The Semantic relation between French reflexive and unmarked anticausatives; 6. Auxiliary selection in unmarked anticausatives and the spread of the reflexive anticausative; 7. Conclusion.