On Interpreting Construction Schemas : : From Action and Motion to Transitivity and Causality / / ed. by Nicole Delbecque, Bert Cornillie.
This volume addresses the constructional variability with transitive and causative verbs from the point of view of their respective action and motion patterns. Drawing on the theoretical advances registered in cognitive approaches to language (Cognitive Grammar, Construction Grammar and space semant...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (369 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of contents
- Introduction
- A usage-based approach to prototypical
- transitivity
- Transitivity and referentiality in Spanish and
- Rumanian
- Transitive verbs with non-accusative alternation in
- Hebrew: Cross-language comparison with English, German and
- Spanish
- Unsubcategorized objects in English resultative
- constructions
- Complex predicates in Basque
- An adversative passive in English: in search of
- origins
- Verbs of letting: Some cognitive and historical
- aspects
- Syntactic and semantic integration in the Spanish
- causative-reflexive construction
- Soft causatives in Spanish
- Two causal alternatives: carry vs. push type
- constructions in English
- Grammar of “manner of motion” verbs in English and
- Spanish: between lexicon and syntax
- On the nature of lexicalization patterns: a
- crosslinguistic inquiry
- The semantics of space: A study of the prefix proin
- Serbian
- Backmatter