The English Change Network: Forcing Changes Into SchemasWalter de Gruyter, 2003 - 408 pages This book introduces the notion of change construction and systematically studies, within a Cognitive Grammar framework, the rich inventory of its instantiations in English, from well-known structures such as the so-called resultative construction to a variety of largely ignored types such as asymmetric resultatives, sublexical change constructions and mildly causal constructions. |
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... Sally was smiling and happy to see them all. There were Aunt Brianna, Alicia, Hannah, and Alexis then there was Uncle Josh and DeMar. They all went inside Laughing and Talking. Later that night when mom told Sally it was time to go home ...
... Sally was smiling and happy to see them all. There were Aunt Brianna, Alicia, Hannah, and Alexis then there was Uncle Josh and DeMar. They all went inside Laughing and Talking. Later that night when mom told Sally it was time to go home ...
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One Homeless Man's Inspirational Journey Richard LeMieux. Chapter. 1. SALLY'S. The first time I saw C was at Sally's. That's what the homeless affectionately call the Salvation Army soup kitchen. It's near the corner of 6th Avenue and ...
One Homeless Man's Inspirational Journey Richard LeMieux. Chapter. 1. SALLY'S. The first time I saw C was at Sally's. That's what the homeless affectionately call the Salvation Army soup kitchen. It's near the corner of 6th Avenue and ...
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... Sally was born on a farm where they grew fruits and vegetables and cared for lots of animals. Now she lives in the city, but she still has a large garden and a white hen with black spots named Georgia. Mama Sally loves her garden and ...
... Sally was born on a farm where they grew fruits and vegetables and cared for lots of animals. Now she lives in the city, but she still has a large garden and a white hen with black spots named Georgia. Mama Sally loves her garden and ...
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Contents
Chapter | 1 |
3 | 2 |
Chapter | 4 |
1 | 7 |
2 | 15 |
3 | 22 |
atconstructions | 26 |
4 | 42 |
Interim conclusion | 161 |
Chapter 5 | 173 |
The Event Change Schema | 218 |
Conclusion | 238 |
The lack of object orientation | 252 |
On indeterminacy and complexity | 271 |
Conclusion | 292 |
The conative alternation | 298 |
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above-the-norm adjective affected entity affectedness generalisation analysed animacy billiard-ball model blend causal Caused Motion Construction change complex change component change constructions change phrase Chris Cognitive Grammar Cognitive Linguistics conceptual conceptualised constructional object construed corresponds denotes emission verbs emitted substance Eurozone Event Change Schema event component Event Force Change evoked example fact Figure Force Change Schema frightened Goldberg hammered the metal Hence homomorphism hypernymic hyponymic implies input instantiations integration interpretation intransitive involved John hammered kicked landmark limp linguistic linked manipulee manner of motion Matthew Kneale meaning metal flat metaphorical metonymic motion scenario motion verbs move noncausal noun paraphrase part-whole path position predicated prepositional phrase Rappaport Hovav realised resultative constructions resultative phrase river froze sentence sound emission spatial specifies structions structure subcategorised object subevents subject orientation subject referent syntactic syntax temporal dependency theme tion trajector transitive verbs unaccusative verbs unidirectional energy flow upper box variant verbal event Vialli Wechsler's