29.4267, Books: Verbs, Clauses and Constructions: Medina, Alonso, Escarza (eds.)

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Subject: Verbs, Clauses and Constructions: Medina, Alonso, Escarza (eds.)

 


Title: Verbs, Clauses and Constructions 
Subtitle: Functional and Typological Approaches 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
	   http://www.cambridgescholars.com/
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/verbs-clauses-and-constructions 


Editor: Pilar Guerrero Medina
Editor: Roberto Torre Alonso
Editor: Raquel Vea Escarza

Hardback: ISBN:  9781527516670 Pages: 460 Price: U.K. £ 74.99


Abstract:

This volume brings together a collection of twenty contributions which offer a
diversity of methodological tools and analytical issues concerning the study
of different aspects of the role of verbs, clauses and constructions in a rich
variety of languages such as Present-Day English, Old English, Old Saxon,
French, Spanish, Arabic, German, Upper Sorbian, Latvian, Sino-Tibetan, and the
Australian dialects Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra. The use
of empirical data and the wide range of languages are the two main challenges
addressed here. The book will serve to contribute to current literature on
functional-oriented linguistics, incorporating linguistic typology, and
corpus-based and contrastive perspectives. The volume is divided into three
main parts. The first brings together eight contributions centrally related to
the category of the verb both from a synchronic and diachronic perspective.
The second part consists of five chapters which revolve around the syntax and
semantics of clauses. Finally, the seven essays in the third section explore
different formal and functional aspects of the study of constructions in an
assortment of languages.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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