Machine derived contents note: Table of contents -- Introduction 1 -- A usage-based approach to prototypical transitivity -- Victoria Vßzquez Rozas 17 -- Transitivity and referentiality in Spanish and Rumanian -- Eugeen Roegiest 39 -- Transitive verbs with non-accusative alternation in Hebrew. -- Cross-language comparison with English, German and Spanish -- Rivka Halevy 59 -- Unsubcategorized objects in English resultative constructions -- Cristiano Broccias 101 -- Complex predicates in Basque -- Cathryn Donohue 123 -- An adversative passive in English: in search of origins -- Junichi Toyota 141 -- Verbs of letting: some cognitive and historical aspects -- Augusto Soares da Silva 169 -- Syntactic and semantic integration in Spanish -- causative-reflexive constructions -- Jose ́ M. Garcøa-Miguel 201 -- Soft causatives in Spanish -- Ricardo Maldonado 229 -- Two causal alternatives: carry vs. push type constructions in English -- Natalya Schmidt 261 -- Grammar of ¿manner of motion¿ verbs in English and Spanish: -- between lexicon and syntax -- Yuko Morimoto 287 -- On the nature of lexicalization patterns: a cross-linguistic enquiry -- Luna Filipovic 309 -- Space semantics of the Serbian prefix pro- -- Dejan Stosic 333 -- Index 361.
0
This volume addresses the constructional variability with transitive and causative verbs from the point of view of their respective action and motion patterns. Drawing on the theoretical advances registered in cognitive approaches to language (Cognitive G.
On interpreting construction schemas.
3110198657
Grammar, Comparative and general-- Verb phrase.
Grammar, Comparative and general-- Verb phrase.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Syntax.