Title: Contrastive studies in construction grammar /
Authors: Boas, Hans Christian, 1971-
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Construction grammar.; Phrase structure grammar.
Contents: Comparing constructions across languages / Hans C. Boas -- Comparing comparatives: A corpus-based study of comparative constructions in English and Swedish / Martin Hilpert -- Contrasting constructions in English and Spanish: The influence of semantic, pragmatic, and discourse factors / Francisco Gonzálvez-García -- Conditional constructions in English and Russian / Olga Gurevich -- Results, cases, and constructions: Argument structure constructions in English and Finnish / Jaakko Leino -- A contrastive study of the caused-motion and ditransitive constructions in English and Thai: semantic and pragmatic constraints / Napasri Timyam and Benjamin K. Bergen -- On expressing measurement and comparison in English and Japanese / Yoko Hasegawa, Russell Lee-Goldman, Kyoko Hirose Ohara, Seiko Fujii and Charles J. Fillmore -- Revising Talmy's typological classification of complex event constructions / William Croft, Jóhanna Barðdal, Willem Hollmann, Violeta Sotirova, and Chiaki Taoka.