Frame-constructional verb classes : change and theft verbs in English and German / / Ryan Dux
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| Autore: |
Dux Ryan
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| Titolo: |
Frame-constructional verb classes : change and theft verbs in English and German / / Ryan Dux
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| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2020] |
| ©2020 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (332 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 425 |
| Soggetto topico: | English language - Verb phrase |
| English language - Verb | |
| German language - Verb phrase | |
| Nota di contenuto: | 1. Introduction -- 2. Approaches to verb classification -- 3. Frame semantics, construction grammar, and valency grammar -- 4. English change verbs -- 5. Comparing theft verbs to change verbs -- 6. A contrastive perspective: German change and theft verbs -- 7. Conclusion. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "While verb classes are a mainstay of linguistic research, the field lacks consensus on precisely what constitutes a verb class. This book presents a novel approach to verb classes, employing a bottom-up, corpus-based methodology and combining key insights Frame Semantics, Construction Grammar, and Valency Grammar. On this approach, verb classes are formulated at varying granularity levels to adequately capture both the shared semantic and syntactic properties unifying verbs of a class and the idiosyncratic properties unique to individual verbs. In-depth analyses based on this approach shed light on the interrelations between verbs, frame-semantics, and constructions, and on the semantic richness and network organization of grammatical constructions. This approach is extended to a comparison of Change and Theft verbs, revealing unexpected lexical and syntactic differences across semantically distinct classes. Finally, a range of contrastive (German-English) analyses demonstrate how verb classes can inform the cross-linguistic comparison of verbs and constructions"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Frame-constructional verb classes |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910810846703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Constructional approaches to language ; ; Volume 28.