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Title:

Constructional approaches to English grammar / edited by Graeme Trousdale, Nikolas Gisborne.

Publisher:

Mouton de Gruyter,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

vi, 310 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English language--Grammar, Generative
Construction grammar

Other Authors:

Trousdale, Graeme, 1971-
Gisborne, Nikolas, 1966-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:

Gerunds, categories and constructions -- Approaches to the English gerund / Bas Aarts -- Constructions in grammaticalization and lexicalization : evidence from the history of a composite predicate construction in English / Graeme Trousdale -- Corpus approaches to constructions -- English relative clauses and construction grammar : a topic which preposition placement can shed light on? / Thomas Hoffmann -- Shall and shan't in contemporary English : a case of functional condensation / Alexander Bergs -- Constraints on the attributive use of "predicative-only" adjectives : a reassessment / Julia Schl©ơter -- Constructions and lexical approaches -- Antitransitivity and constructionality / Andrew Rosta -- Dependencies are constructions : a case study in predicative complementation / Nikolas Gisborne -- Word grammar and construction grammar / Richard Hudson.

Series:

Topics in English linguistics; 57

ISBN:

3110196263 (alk. paper)
9783110196269 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)230915987

LCCN:

2008023359

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)