The English Change Network

Forcing Changes into Schemas

Broccias, Cristiano

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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.

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Additional ISBN/GTIN9783110901207

Product TypeE-book

BindingE-book

FormatPDF

Format noteAdobe DRM [Hard-DRM]

FormatReflowable

PublisherDe Gruyter

Publication townBerlin/Boston

Publishing date05/07/2013

Edition1., Reprint 2013

SeriesCognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]

Series no.22

LanguageEnglish

File size12001414 Bytes

Illustrations2 s/w Tabellen, 77 s/w Abbildungen

Article no.4262731

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Data source no.199184

Product groupBU561

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