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Cross-linguistic perspectives on verb constructions /

This volume sheds new light on verb constructions by exposing them to cross-linguistic analysis based on multilingual corpora. It is composed of nine studies which provide insights into various aspects of cross-linguistic diversity, including showing that seemingly equivalent verb constructions may...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (Editor ), Hasselgård, Hilde (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This volume sheds new light on verb constructions by exposing them to cross-linguistic analysis based on multilingual corpora. It is composed of nine studies which provide insights into various aspects of cross-linguistic diversity, including showing that seemingly equivalent verb constructions may differ in their semantics, and that similar meanings may be expressed by different types of constructions. In other words, this book shows that different languages have different ways of lexicalising verb-based meanings, most notably by means of other, divergent verb constructions. A range of lexico.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (vi, 256 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781443882309
1443882305