Contrastive studies in construction grammar
By: edited by Hans c. Boas
Series: Constructional approaches to language; v. 10
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9789027204325; 9789027287601
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Comparing constructions across languages / Hans C. Boas; title: Comparing comparatives: A corpus-based study of comparative constructions in English and Swedish / Martin Hilpert; title: Contrasting constructions in English and Spanish: The influence of semantic, pragmatic, and discourse factors / Francisco Gonzálvez-García; title: Conditional constructions in English and Russian / Olga Gurevich; title: Results, cases, and constructions: Argument structure constructions in English and Finnish / Jaakko Leino; title: A contrastive study of the caused-motion and ditransitive constructions in English and Thai: semantic and pragmatic constraints / Napasri Timyam and Benjamin K. Bergen; title: On expressing measurement and comparison in English and Japanese / Yoko Hasegawa, Russell Lee-Goldman, Kyoko Hirose Ohara, Seiko Fujii and Charles J. Fillmore; title: Revising Talmy's typological classification of complex event constructions / William Croft, Jóhanna Barðdal, Willem Hollmann, Violeta Sotirova, and Chiaki Taoka.