On the Syntactic Composition of Manner and Motion (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: March 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780262240529
Subjects: Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Grammar, Comparative and general; Motion in language; Syntax; Verb
Description: Unlike many books and articles that discuss the relation between constructional meaning and the lexicon, 'On the Syntactice Composition of Manner and Motion' examines one phenomenon in detail: the articulation of manner and motion, in three distinct language families - Germanic, Korean, and Romance.