27.322, Books: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Verb Constructions: Oksefjell Ebeling, Hasselgård (eds.)

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Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 15:26:35
From: Chris Humphrey [chumphrey at c-s-p.org]
Subject: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Verb Constructions: Oksefjell Ebeling, Hasselgård (eds.)

Title: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Verb Constructions 
Publication Year: 2015 
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
	   http://www.cambridgescholars.com/

Book URL: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/cross-linguistic-perspectives-on-verb-constructions 

Editor: Signe Oksefjell Ebeling
Editor: Hilde Hasselgård

Hardback: ISBN:  9781443878081 Pages: 266 Price: U.K. £ 47.99
Hardback: ISBN:  9781443878081 Pages: 266 Price: U.S. $ 81.95

Abstract:

This volume sheds new light on verb constructions by exposing them to
cross-linguistic analysis based on multilingual corpora. It is composed of
nine studies which provide insights into various aspects of cross-linguistic
diversity, including showing that seemingly equivalent verb constructions may
differ in their semantics, and that similar meanings may be expressed by
different types of constructions. In other words, this book shows that
different languages have different ways of lexicalising verb-based meanings,
most notably by means of other, divergent verb constructions. 

A range of lexicogrammatical aspects of verb constructions are explored
throughout the book, including time reference; modality; voice; light verb
constructions; non-finite complementation of lexical verbs; posture-verb
constructions; semiperiphrastic constructions; and the construction and
semantic composition of verbs of putting. All of the contributions consider
English in comparison with at least one of the following languages: Czech,
German, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish. 

As such, this volume offers a truly multilingual perspective on verb
constructions. The diversity of comparisons also highlights the multi-faceted
nature of the verb phrase, which seems to have virtually limitless potential
for exploration in the fields of tense, aspect, modality, lexical semantics,
syntax, and phraseology.

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Syntax
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Czech (ces)
                     English (eng)
                     German (deu)
                     Lithuanian (lit)
                     Norwegian Bokmål (nob)
                     Spanish (spa)
                     Swedish (swe)

Written In: English  (eng)

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