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Verb valency patterns : a challenge for semantics-based accounts /
Based on an empirical study of English verbs, the author discusses to what extent complementation is predictable from meaning by examining whether semantically similar verbs also exhibit the same syntactic properties. The significant number of idiosyncrasies presented rigorously challenge approaches...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
De Gruyter Mouton,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Topics in English linguistics ;
71. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Based on an empirical study of English verbs, the author discusses to what extent complementation is predictable from meaning by examining whether semantically similar verbs also exhibit the same syntactic properties. The significant number of idiosyncrasies presented rigorously challenge approaches that assume meaning to be the determining force in complementation. |
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| Notas: | Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Erlangen and Nuremberg, Germany, 2009) under the title: Semantic aspects of verb valency. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 357 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783110240788 3110240785 1283165902 9781283165907 9786613165909 6613165905 |