Grammatical constructions
Subtitle: their form and meaning
By: edited by Masayoshi Shibatani and Sandra A. Thompson.
Contributors: Shibatani, Masayoshi.; Thompson, Sandra A.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general.; Structural linguistics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Inalienability and the interpretation of modified noun phrases / Claudia Brugman; value: Making one's way through the data / Adele E. Goldberg; value: Toward a description of te-linkage in Japanese / Yoko Hasegawa; value: Conversational scorekeeping and the interpretation of conditional sentences / James D. McCawley; value: Interaction of factors in construal : Japanese relative clauses / Yoshiko Matsumoto; value: The situated interpretation of possessor-raising / Mary Catherine O'Connor; value: Applicatives and benefactives : a cognitive account / Masayoshi Shibatani; value: Two ways to travel : verbs of motion in English and Spanish / Dan I. Slobin; value: Reasoning, mappings, and meta-metaphorical conditionals / Eve Sweetser; value: The windowing of attention in language / Leonard Talmy; value: The case for "effector" : case roles, agents, and agency revisited / Robert D. van Valin Jr. and David P. Wilkins; value: The interpreation of deverbal nominals in Tepehua / James K. Watters.