Beyond Alternations

Beyond Alternations

Overview

Beyond Alternations by Laura A. Michaelis, Josef Ruppenhofer

Beyond Alternations provides a unified account of the semantic effects of the German applicative ("be-") construction. Using natural data from a variety
of corpora, the authors propose that this pattern is inherently meaningful and that its meaning provides the basis for creative extensions.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781575863306
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf
Publication date: 09/28/2001
Series: Stanford Monographs in Linguistics
Pages: 142
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. An Alternation-Based Account
3. The Constructional Approach
4. The Linking Constructions in Combination
5. The Semantics of the Applicative Pattern
Conclusion
Appendix: Verb Classes
— 1. The Coverage Scenario
— 2. Metaphorical Extensions
— 3. Inference-based Extensions
— 4. Surrounding and Containment
— 5. Removal
— 6. Proximity
— 7. Pseudo-Applicative Participles
— 8. Verbs and Participles that Could not be Assigned to any Class
References
Index

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