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Aspects of meaning construction /
"England and America are two nations divided by a common language."(George Bernard Shaw)Adopting a construction-based view of language (Goldberg 1995), we demonstrate that it is possible to uncover differences between British and American English at the lexicosyntactic level, showing that...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins,
©2007.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | "England and America are two nations divided by a common language."(George Bernard Shaw)Adopting a construction-based view of language (Goldberg 1995), we demonstrate that it is possible to uncover differences between British and American English at the lexicosyntactic level, showing that the collexemes, i.e. the words significantly associated with a construction, are variety-dependent. To this end, we compare more than 5,000 verb pair types as they occur in the two varieties in the so-called into- causative construction (as in He tricked me into employing him) and submit them to |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (x, 287 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027292551 9027292558 1282154672 9781282154674 9786612154676 6612154675 |