The English Change Network: Forcing Changes Into SchemasMouton 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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... necessarily interpreted as extending over the period of time leading up to the change into a state of being sick . That is , [ ( 20a ) ] necessarily implies that the agent's continuous eating made him sick ; it cannot imply that the ...
... necessarily interpreted as extending over the period of time leading up to the change into a state of being sick . That is , [ ( 20a ) ] necessarily implies that the agent's continuous eating made him sick ; it cannot imply that the ...
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... necessarily heavy individually , on a cart or we know that each crate is heavy , we are biased to conclude that the cart is also heavy . In other words , the property " heaviness " is in- ferred by the conceptualiser but is not necessarily ...
... necessarily heavy individually , on a cart or we know that each crate is heavy , we are biased to conclude that the cart is also heavy . In other words , the property " heaviness " is in- ferred by the conceptualiser but is not necessarily ...
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... necessarily causes Chelsea to go level ( cf. The fact that Vialli scored a header caused Chelsea to go level ) , this is not the case with Sam cut the sa- lami into the bowl . Cutting the salami does not necessarily cause the salami to ...
... necessarily causes Chelsea to go level ( cf. The fact that Vialli scored a header caused Chelsea to go level ) , this is not the case with Sam cut the sa- lami into the bowl . Cutting the salami does not necessarily cause the salami to ...
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above-the-norm affected entity affectedness generalisation analysis animacy argued at-construction ball billiard-ball model blend causal Caused Motion Construction change complex change component change construction change phrase Chris coded Cognitive Cognitive Grammar conceptual conceptualised construal constructional object construed corresponds denotes East Timor emission verbs Eurozone Event Change Schema event component Event Force Change evoked example fact Fauconnier Figure Force Change Schema frightened Goldberg hammered the metal Hence homomorphism implies input instantiations integration interpretation intransitive involved John hammered kicked kissed landmark Langacker limp linked manipulee manner of motion Matthew Kneale meaning metaphorical metonymic motion scenario move noncausal noun paraphrase part-whole path position predicated prepositional phrase Rappaport Hovav realised relation resultative constructions resultative phrase Sally shouted semantic sentence sound emission spatial specifies structions structure subcategorised object subevents subject orientation subject referent syntax temporal dependency tion trajector transitive verbs unaccusative verbs unidirectional energy flow upper box variant verbal event Vialli Wechsler's