: Nicole Delbecque, Bert Cornillie
: On Interpreting Construction Schemas From Action and Motion to Transitivity and Causality
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110207842
: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 203.70
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: Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
: English
: 378
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The volume addresses the constructional variability with transitive and causative verbs from the point of view of their respective action and motion patterns. Drawing on the theoretical advances registered in cognitive approaches to language, the papers adduce empirical evidence from various languages to refine or adjust existing analyses of transitivity, causation and motion.



Nicole Delbecque andBert Cornillie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
Frontmatter1
Table of contents5
Introduction11
A usage-based approach to prototypical transitivity27
Transitivity and referentiality in Spanish and Rumanian49
Transitive verbs with non-accusative alternation in Hebrew: Cross-language comparison with English, German and Spanish71
Unsubcategorized objects in English resultative constructions113
Complex predicates in Basque135
An adversative passive in English: in search of origins153
Verbs of letting: Some cognitive and historical aspects181
Syntactic and semantic integration in the Spanish causative-reflexive construction211
Soft causatives in Spanish239
Two causal alternatives: carry vs. push type constructions in English271
Grammar of “manner of motion” verbs in English and Spanish: between lexicon and syntax297
On the nature of lexicalization patterns: a crosslinguistic inquiry317
The semantics of space : A study of the prefix proin Serbian341
Backmatter369