Frame-constructional verb classes : change and theft verbs in English and German

Frame-constructional verb classes : change and theft verbs in English and German / Ryan Dux.

"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,...

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Main Author: Dux, Ryan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]
Series:Constructional approaches to language ; v. 28.
Subjects:
English language > Verb phrase.
English language > Verb.
German language > Verb phrase.
German language > Verb.
English language > Verb
English language > Verb phrase
German language > Verb
German language > Verb phrase
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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Bibliography.

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