| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 244 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Constructional approaches to language ; v. 10
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Constructional approaches to language ; v. 10.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Comparing constructions across languages / Hans C. Boas -- Comparing comparatives: A corpus-based study of comparative constructions in English and Swedish / Martin Hilpert -- Contrasting constructions in English and Spanish: The influence of semantic, pragmatic, and discourse factors / Francisco Gonzálvez-García -- Conditional constructions in English and Russian / Olga Gurevich -- Results, cases, and constructions: Argument structure constructions in English and Finnish / Jaakko Leino -- A contrastive study of the caused-motion and ditransitive constructions in English and Thai: semantic and pragmatic constraints / Napasri Timyam and Benjamin K. Bergen -- On expressing measurement and comparison in English and Japanese / Yoko Hasegawa, Russell Lee-Goldman, Kyoko Hirose Ohara, Seiko Fujii and Charles J. Fillmore -- Revising Talmy's typological classification of complex event constructions / William Croft, Jóhanna Barðdal, Willem Hollmann, Violeta Sotirova, and Chiaki Taoka. |
| Summary |
The papers in this volume provide a contrastive application of Construction Grammar. By referencing a well-described constructional phenomenon in English, each paper provides a solid foundation for describing and analyzing its constructional counterpart in another language. This approach shows that the semantic description (including discourse-pragmatic and functional factors) of an English construction can be regarded as a first step towards a "tertium comparationis" that can be employed for comparing and contrasting the formal properties of constructional counterparts in other languages. Thu. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Construction grammar.
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Construction grammar. |
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Phrase structure grammar.
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Phrase structure grammar. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Boas, Hans Christian, 1971-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Contrastive studies in construction grammar. Amsterdam, The Netherlands ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010 9789027204325 (DLC) 2010034264 (OCoLC)656850270 |
| ISBN |
9789027287601 (electronic book) |
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9027287600 (electronic book) |
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1282897306 |
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9781282897304 |
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9789027204325 |
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9027204322 |
| Standard No. |
9786612897306 |
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