Romance perspectives on construction grammar
By: edited by Hans C. Boas, University of Texas at Austin, Francisco Gonzálvez García, University of Almeria
Contributors: Gonzálvez-García, Francisco, editor
Series: Constructional approaches to language -- volume 15
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9789027204370; 9789027269638
Subjects: Romance languages; Infinitival constructions; Resultative constructions; Generative Grammar; Comparative Grammar; Construction grammar
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Applying constructional concepts to Romance languages / Hans C. Boas and Francisco Gonzálvez-García; title: The role of constructional meanings in novel verb-noun compounds in Spanish / Jiyoung Yoon; title: From lexicalization to constructional generalizations: on complex prepositions in French / Peter Lauwers; title: A constructional corpus-based approach to "weak' verbs in French / Dominique Willems and Claire Blanche-Benveniste; title: The narrative infinitive construction in French and Latin / Irina Nikolaeva; title: Bringing together fragments and constructions: Evidence from complementation in English and Spanish / Francisco Gonzálvez-García; title: A Romance perspective on gapping constructions / Anne Abeillé, Gabriela Bîlbîie, and François Mouret; title: Variable type framing in Spanish constructions of directed motion / Johan Pedersen.