03978nam 2200673Ia 450 991082384380332120200520144314.094-012-0378-41-4294-8129-310.1163/9789401203784(CKB)1000000000475307(EBL)556560(OCoLC)714567293(SSID)ssj0000147692(PQKBManifestationID)12007553(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000147692(PQKBWorkID)10012495(PQKB)11038867(MiAaPQ)EBC556560(OCoLC)166244681(OCoLC)647374436(OCoLC)714567293(OCoLC)764536105(nllekb)BRILL9789401203784(Au-PeEL)EBL556560(CaPaEBR)ebr10380299(CaONFJC)MIL989057(EXLCZ)99100000000047530720070112d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEnglish mediopassive constructions a cognitive, corpus-based study of their origin, spread, and current status /Marianne Hundt1st ed.Amsterdam Rodopi20071 online resource (239 p.)Language and computers ;no. 58Description based upon print version of record.90-420-2127-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-193) and index.Preliminary material /Editors English mediopassive constructions -- Introduction /Editors English mediopassive constructions -- Defining the object of study /Editors English mediopassive constructions -- Previous studies /Editors English mediopassive constructions -- Theoretical background /Editors English mediopassive constructions -- The mediopassive in Present Day English /Editors English mediopassive constructions -- The history of mediopassives /Editors English mediopassive constructions -- Conclusion /Editors English mediopassive constructions -- References /Editors English mediopassive constructions -- Primary material /Editors English mediopassive constructions -- Sample pages from the Sears and Roebucks catalogues /Editors English mediopassive constructions -- Additional tables and figures /Editors English mediopassive constructions -- Index /Editors English mediopassive constructions.This book provides the first empirical study of the history and spread of mediopassive constructions. It investigates the productivity of the pattern, the spread of the construction in Modern English, and looks into text type-specific preferences for the construction. On a more abstract level, it combines the corpus-based description of mediopassive constructions with cognitive linguistic models, drawing largely on notions such as ‘prototype’, ‘family resemblances’, ‘patch’ and ‘construction’. The theoretical modelling is largely based on data from real texts. These come from publicly available machine-readable corpora, text-databases and a single-register ‘corpus’ (American mail-order catalogues). The study combines the corpus-based approach with cognitive theories and is therefore of interest to both empirical and theoretical linguists.Language and computers ;no. 58.Computational linguisticsEnglish languageData processingResearchEnglish languageVerb phraseEnglish languageVoiceComputational linguistics.English languageData processingResearch.English languageVerb phrase.English languageVoice.425Hundt Marianne1607032MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823843803321English mediopassive constructions3968208UNINA