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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.