The English Change Network : : Forcing Changes into Schemas /

The English Change Network : : Forcing Changes into Schemas / / Cristiano Broccias.

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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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Broccias, Cristiano,
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

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