Aspects of meaning construction /:

"England and America are two nations divided by a common language."(George Bernard Shaw)Adopting a construction-based view of language (Goldberg 1995), we demonstrate that it is possible to uncover differences between British and American English at the lexicosyntactic level, showing that...

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Weitere Verfasser: Radden, Günter
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, ©2007.
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Zusammenfassung:"England and America are two nations divided by a common language."(George Bernard Shaw)Adopting a construction-based view of language (Goldberg 1995), we demonstrate that it is possible to uncover differences between British and American English at the lexicosyntactic level, showing that the collexemes, i.e. the words significantly associated with a construction, are variety-dependent. To this end, we compare more than 5,000 verb pair types as they occur in the two varieties in the so-called into- causative construction (as in He tricked me into employing him) and submit them to
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 287 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9789027292551
9027292558
1282154672
9781282154674
9786612154676
6612154675