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The English Change Network : Forcing Changes into Schemas / Cristiano Broccias.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] ; 22Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2013]Copyright date: ©2003Edition: Reprint 2013Description: 1 online resource (408 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110176469
  • 9783110901207
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 425 21
LOC classification:
  • PE1369 .B76 2003
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Figures and tables -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Resultative constructions and change constructions -- Chapter 3: Asymmetric resultatives and the change complex -- Chapter 4: Motion and idiosyncrasy -- Chapter 5: The Force Change Schema and the Event Change Schema -- Chapter 6: The Event Force Change Schema and verb classes -- Chapter 7: at-constructions -- Chapter 8: Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Sources of examples -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary: This book introduces the notion of change construction and systematically studies, within a Cognitive Grammar framework, the rich inventory of its instantiations in English, from well-known structures such as the so-called resultative construction to a variety of largely ignored types such as asymmetric resultatives, sublexical change constructions and mildly causal constructions.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Figures and tables -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Resultative constructions and change constructions -- Chapter 3: Asymmetric resultatives and the change complex -- Chapter 4: Motion and idiosyncrasy -- Chapter 5: The Force Change Schema and the Event Change Schema -- Chapter 6: The Event Force Change Schema and verb classes -- Chapter 7: at-constructions -- Chapter 8: Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Sources of examples -- Index -- Backmatter

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This book introduces the notion of change construction and systematically studies, within a Cognitive Grammar framework, the rich inventory of its instantiations in English, from well-known structures such as the so-called resultative construction to a variety of largely ignored types such as asymmetric resultatives, sublexical change constructions and mildly causal constructions.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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