UID:
almahu_9949701629302882
Umfang:
1 online resource (xiii, 222 pages) :
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illustrations, facsimiles.
ISBN:
9789401203784
Serie:
Language and computers ; no. 58
Inhalt:
This book provides the first empirical study of the history and spread of mediopassive constructions. It investigates the productivity of the pattern, the spread of the construction in Modern English, and looks into text type-specific preferences for the construction. On a more abstract level, it combines the corpus-based description of mediopassive constructions with cognitive linguistic models, drawing largely on notions such as 'prototype', 'family resemblances', 'patch' and 'construction'. The theoretical modelling is largely based on data from real texts. These come from publicly available machine-readable corpora, text-databases and a single-register 'corpus' (American mail-order catalogues). The study combines the corpus-based approach with cognitive theories and is therefore of interest to both empirical and theoretical linguists.
Anmerkung:
Preliminary material /
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Introduction /
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Defining the object of study /
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Previous studies /
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Theoretical background /
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The mediopassive in Present Day English /
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The history of mediopassives /
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Conclusion /
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References /
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Primary material /
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Sample pages from the Sears and Roebucks catalogues /
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Additional tables and figures /
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Index /
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Hundt, Marianne. English mediopassive constructions. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007 ISBN 9789042021273
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9042021276
Sprache:
Englisch
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