31.3730, Books: Frame-Constructional Verb Classes: Dux

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Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 21:16:04
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Frame-Constructional Verb Classes: Dux

 


Title: Frame-Constructional Verb Classes 
Subtitle: Change and Theft verbs in English and German 
Series Title: Constructional Approaches to Language 28  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/cal.28 


Author: Ryan Dux

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261014 Pages: 320 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261014 Pages: 320 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261014 Pages: 320 Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027207067 Pages: 320 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027207067 Pages: 320 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027207067 Pages: 320 Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

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 from Frame Semantics, Construction
Grammar, and Valency Grammar.

On this approach, verb classes are formulated at varying granularity levels to
adequately capture both the shared semantic and syntactic properties unifying
verbs of a class and the idiosyncratic properties unique to individual verbs.
In-depth analyses based on this approach shed light on the interrelations
between verbs, frame-semantics, and constructions, and on the semantic
richness and network organization of grammatical constructions.

This approach is extended to a comparison of Change and Theft verbs, revealing
unexpected lexical and syntactic differences across semantically distinct
classes. Finally, a range of contrastive (German–English) analyses demonstrate
how verb classes can inform the cross-linguistic comparison of verbs and
constructions.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     German (deu)


Written In: English  (eng)

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