The English Change Network: Forcing Changes Into Schemas

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Walter de Gruyter, 2003 - Foreign Language Study - 408 pages

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.

 

Contents

Chapter
1
3
2
Chapter
4
1
7
2
15
3
22
atconstructions
26
4
42
Interim conclusion
161
Chapter 5
173
The Event Change Schema
218
Conclusion
238
The lack of object orientation
252
On indeterminacy and complexity
271
Conclusion
292
The conative alternation
298

4
44
3
70
3
86
3
105
Motion and idiosyncrasy
119
Tight links and information retrieval
130
Lexical variation
137
3
319
4
326
Chapter 8
353
Conclusion
369
2
393
Notes
399
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Cristiano Broccias teaches at the Universities of Genova and Pavia, Italy.