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Frame-constructional verb classes : change and theft verbs in English and German /
"While verb classes are a mainstay of linguistic research, the field lacks consensus on precisely what constitutes a verb class. This book presents a novel approach to verb classes, employing a bottom-up, corpus-based methodology and combining key insights Frame Semantics, Construction Grammar,...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2020]
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| Series: | Constructional approaches to language ;
v. 28. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Approaches to verb classification
- 3. Frame semantics, construction grammar, and valency grammar
- 4. English change verbs
- 5. Comparing theft verbs to change verbs
- 6. A contrastive perspective: German change and theft verbs
- 7. Conclusion
- Bibliography.