Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 239 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 600 g
A lexical-constructional approach
Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 239 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 600 g
Reihe: Constructional Approaches to Language
ISBN: 978-90-272-1828-5
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
The aim of the present volume is two-fold: to give a coherent account of the locative alternation in English, and to develop a constructional theory that overcomes a number of problems in earlier constructional accounts. The lexical-constructional account proposed here is characterized by two main features. On the one hand, it emphasizes the need for a detailed examination of verb meanings. On the other, it introduces lower-level constructions such as verb-class-specific constructions and verb-specific constructions, and makes full use of these lower-level constructions in accounting for alternation phenomena. Rather than being a completely new version of construction grammar, the proposed lexical-constructional account is an automatic consequence of the basic tenet of constructional approaches as being usage-based.
