Three-participant Constructions in English
Subtitle: A functional-cognitive approach to caused relations (Studies in Language Companion Series)
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published: June 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9789027230898
Subjects: Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; English; Language; Grammar; Linguistics; English language; Grammar, Comparative and general; Locative constructions; Syntax
Description: "This study aims to give a systematic and comprehensive description of the constructions involved in three important types of alternation: the locative alternation, which is by far the most researched of the three, the image impression alternation and the material/product alternation. The author looks at the constructions as part of an alternation, but also looks beyond the alternations, and analyzes and describes the constructions in their own right. They are analyzed as three-participant constructions with relations complements, construing causation of the three main subtypes of relations, namely intensive, circumstantial and possessive relations."--Jacket.