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Item Details
Title:
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CONSTRUCTIONAL APPROACH TO RESULTATIVES
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By: |
Hans C. Boas |
Format: |
Paperback |

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£22.50 |
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ISBN 10: |
1575864088 |
ISBN 13: |
9781575864082 |
Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS |
Pub. date: |
22 October, 2003 |
Edition: |
2 illustrated ed |
Series: |
Stanford Monographs in Linguistics |
Pages: |
352 |
Synopsis: |
Providing a unified solution within the frameworks of construction grammar and frame semantics, Hans Boas develops an account of resultative constructions in English by grouping them in two classes: conventionalized and non-conventionalized. The usage-based model employed here proposes that each particular sense of a verb constitutes a conventionalized mini-construction, which is crucial information for the licensing of arguments. In contrast, verbs in non-conventionalized resultative constructions can acquire a novel meaning and thereby a new syntactic frame. English and German resultatives are compared to illustrate the distinct lexical polysemy networks of English and German verbs. |
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