The English Change Network : : Forcing Changes into Schemas / / Cristiano Broccias.
This book introduces the notion of change construction and systematically studies, within a Cognitive Grammar framework, the rich inventory of its instantiations in English, from well-known structures such as the so-called resultative construction to a variety of largely ignored types such as asymme...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013] ©2003 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Edition: | Reprint 2013 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] ,
22 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (408 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Figures and tables
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Resultative constructions and change constructions
- Chapter 3: Asymmetric resultatives and the change complex
- Chapter 4: Motion and idiosyncrasy
- Chapter 5: The Force Change Schema and the Event Change Schema
- Chapter 6: The Event Force Change Schema and verb classes
- Chapter 7: at-constructions
- Chapter 8: Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Sources of examples
- Index
- Backmatter