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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cross-linguistic perspectives on verb constructions / Signe Oksefjell Ebeling and Hilde Hasselgård
  • Looking for differences in our silences: A corpus-based approach to object omission in English and Spanish / Tania de Dios
  • A contrastive study of Norwegian pseudo-coordination and two English posture-verb constructions / Signe Oksefjell Ebeling
  • English translations of Norwegian infinitival complement constructions / Thomas Egan
  • Coming and going to the future: Future-referring expressions in English and Norwegian / Hilde Hasselgård
  • Semiperiphrastic constructions in English: A contrastive corpus study / Marlén Izquierdo
  • GIVE and TAKE. A contrastive study of light verb constructions in English, German and Swedish / Magnus Levin & Jenny Ström Herold
  • Translation counterparts as indicators of the boundaries of units of meaning: A contrastive view of the position of 'come V-ing' among the patterns of the verb come / Markéta Malá
  • Evidential passive constructions in English and their equivalents in Lithuanian / Anna Ruskan
  • Contrasts in construction and semantic composition: The verbs of putting in English and Swedish in an intra-typological perspective / Åke Viberg.