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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... specifies the degree of freezing the river was subject to and , indeed , it can be paraphrased as completely . I will therefore say that solid in ( 26b ) is a specifier ( see also [ 30c ] ) in that it specifies the point up to which the ...
... specifies the degree of freezing the river was subject to and , indeed , it can be paraphrased as completely . I will therefore say that solid in ( 26b ) is a specifier ( see also [ 30c ] ) in that it specifies the point up to which the ...
Page 77
... specifies the endpoint of the path traversed by the door and solid specifies that the river's freezing was complete . More in general , the causal reading improves if the conceptual dis- tance between the meaning of the verb and that of ...
... specifies the endpoint of the path traversed by the door and solid specifies that the river's freezing was complete . More in general , the causal reading improves if the conceptual dis- tance between the meaning of the verb and that of ...
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... specifies it . We have already seen that telic events do not necessarily have a specifier interpretation . For example , dry in ( 227a ) is telic ( cf. The clothes dried in an hour ) , but wrinkled is not necessarily a specifier ...
... specifies it . We have already seen that telic events do not necessarily have a specifier interpretation . For example , dry in ( 227a ) is telic ( cf. The clothes dried in an hour ) , but wrinkled is not necessarily a specifier ...
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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