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Morphosyntactic Alternations in English
Pilar G (Ed) Medina
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Description for Morphosyntactic Alternations in English
Hardcover. This volume brings together fourteen papers which explore the discourse-pragmatic, semantic, morphological and syntactic factors involved in English morphosyntactic alternations. Editor(s): Medina, Pilar Guerrero. Series: Functional Linguistics. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG; CFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 165 x 240 x 32. Weight in Grams: 724.
This volume brings together fourteen papers which explore the discourse-pragmatic, semantic, morphological and syntactic factors involved in English morphosyntactic alternations. The contributors to this volume deal with different types of diathesis alternationsA" -broadly defined by Levin (English Verb Classes and Alternations. A Preliminary Investigation, 1993) as alternations in the expressions of arguments, sometimes accompanied by changes of meaningA" -i.e. transitivity alternations (such as the causative/inchoative alternation and the conative alternation), alternations involving arguments within the VP (such as the Swarm-alternation, and the dative or benefactive alternations), etc. The volume will also include some contributions dealing more generally with ... Read more
This volume brings together fourteen papers which explore the discourse-pragmatic, semantic, morphological and syntactic factors involved in English morphosyntactic alternations. The contributors to this volume deal with different types of diathesis alternationsA" -broadly defined by Levin (English Verb Classes and Alternations. A Preliminary Investigation, 1993) as alternations in the expressions of arguments, sometimes accompanied by changes of meaningA" -i.e. transitivity alternations (such as the causative/inchoative alternation and the conative alternation), alternations involving arguments within the VP (such as the Swarm-alternation, and the dative or benefactive alternations), etc. The volume will also include some contributions dealing more generally with ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Functional Linguistics
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845537449
SKU
V9781845537449
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About Pilar G (Ed) Medina
Pilar Guerrero Medina is Lecturer in English Grammar at the University of Cordoba, Spain. She has mainly conducted her research within a functionalist framework, focusing on the relationship between lexis and grammar on the one hand, and grammar and discourse on the other. Over the past decade, she has published articles on a range of topics, including transitivity in grammar ... Read more
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