Contrastive studies in construction grammar [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Hans c. Boas

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785213303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-89730-6; 9786612897306; 90-272-8760-0
• Descrizione fisica: vi, 244 p
• Collana: Constructional approaches to language ; ; 10
• Altri autori (Persone): BoasHans Christian <1971->
• Disciplina: 415/.018
• Soggetti: Construction grammar; Phrase structure grammar
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.