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Date: 24-Oct-2011
From: Janet Joyce [jjoyce at equinoxpub.com]
Subject: Morphosyntactic Alternations in English: Medina (Ed)


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Title: Morphosyntactic Alternations in English 
Subtitle: Functional and Cognitive Perspectives 
Series Title: Functional Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
	   http://www.equinoxpub.com/
	
Editor: Pilar Guerrero Medina

Hardback: ISBN:  9781845537449 Pages: 382 Price: U.K. £ 55 Comment: US$95


Abstract:

This volume brings together fourteen papers which explore the discourse-
pragmatic, semantic, morphological and syntactic factors involved in English 
morphosyntactic alternations. The contributors to this volume deal with 
different types of "diathesis alternations" - broadly defined by Levin (English 
Verb Classes and Alternations. A Preliminary Investigation, 1993) as 
"alternations in the expressions of arguments, sometimes accompanied by 
changes of meaning" - i.e. transitivity alternations (such as the 
causative/inchoative alternation and the conative alternation), alternations 
involving arguments within the VP (such as the Swarm-alternation, and the 
dative or benefactive alternations), etc. The volume will also include some 
contributions dealing more generally with the issues of morphological 
relatedness and verb-specific alternations within functionalist, cognitive 
and/or constructionist frameworks.                 

The book features a wide range of theoretical approaches, ranging from 
functionalist models such as Functional Discourse Grammar or the Cardiff 
Grammar version of Systemic Functional Linguistics to more cognitively-
oriented approaches such as Goldberg's Construction Grammar or Fillmore's 
Frame Semantics. This attempt to describe morphosyntactic alternations 
within different contemporary theories - derivational and non-derivational - will 
hopefully contribute to a better understanding of the linguistic phenomena 
traditionally subsumed under the rubric of morphosyntactic alternation. The 
book will be of interest to experienced linguists and researchers of a 
functionalist, cognitivist or even functional-typological persuasion. 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Morphology
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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