Format:
Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9783110199178
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3110196263
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9783110196269
Series Statement:
Topics in English linguistics 57
Content:
This collection of articles brings together new research from both established and emerging international experts in the study of English grammar, all of whom have engaged with the notion of 'construction' in their work. The research here is concerned with both synchrony and diachrony, with the relationship between Construction Grammar and other linguistic theories, and with a number of issues in the study of grammar, such as raising and control phenomena, transitivity, relative clause structure, the syntax of gerunds, attributive and predicative uses of adjectives, modality, and grammaticaliz
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Description based upon print version of record
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Frontmatter; Contents; Constructional approaches to language-particular description; Gerunds, categories and constructions; Approaches to the English gerund; Constructions in grammaticalization and lexicalization: Evidence from the history of a composite predicate construction in English; Corpus approaches to constructions; English relative clauses and Construction Grammar: A topic which preposition placement can shed light on?; Shall and shan't in contemporary English - a case of functional condensation; Constraints on the attributive use of "predicative-only"adjectives: A reassessment
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Constructions and lexical approachesAntitransitivity and constructionality; Dependencies are constructions: A case study in predicative complementation; Word Grammar and Construction Grammar; Backmatter;
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110196269
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Constructional approaches to English grammar Berlin [u.a.] : Mouton de Gruyter, 2008 ISBN 9783110196269
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
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Konstruktionsgrammatik
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1515/9783110199178
URL:
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Author information:
Trousdale, Graeme 1971-
