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Contrastive studies in construction grammar / edited by Hans C. Boas.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Constructional approaches to language ; v. 10.Publication details: Amsterdam, The Netherlands ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2010.Description: vi, 244 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9789027204325 (hc.)
  • 9027204322 (hc.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 415.018 22
LOC classification:
  • P163.5 .C665 2010
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.

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