Give constructions across languages / edited by Myriam Bouveret.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bouveret, Myriam, editor.

John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Series:

Constructional approaches to language ; v. 29.

Constructional approaches to language ; volume 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Construction grammar.

Semantics, Comparative.

Lexical grammar.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Give (The English word).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 246 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction. Lexicalization, grammaticalization and constructionalization of the verb give across languages : a cognitive case study of language innovation / Myriam Bouveret

Metaphor meets grammar in a radial network of give verbs in Romance / Oana David

Talking about giving : from experience to language in child language / Aliyah Morgenstern and Nancy Chang

The role of verb polysemy in constructional profiling : a cross-linguistic study of give in the dative alternation / Karolina Krawczak

The French ditransitive transfer construction and the complementarity between the meta-predicates give, take, keep, leave : the hypothesis of a grammatical enantiosemy / Dominique Legallois

Transfer and applicative constructions in Gunwinyguan languages (non-Pama-Nyungan, Australia) / Maïa Ponsonnet

Aoj 'give' in Khmer : meaning extensions and construction types / Eric Corre

The semantics of the verb give in Tibetan : the development of the transfer construction and the honorific domain / Mélac Eric and Nicolas Tournadre

Grammar in usage and grammaticalization of dan 'give' constructions in Kurmanji Kurdish / Salih Akin and Myriam Bouveret

Gěi : Towards a unified account / Linda Badan

Grammar in usage and grammaticalization of dan 'give' constructions in Kurmanji Kurdish / Salih Akin and Myriam Bouveret.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Amsterdam, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 17, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Give constructions across languages

ISBN:

9789027260154

902726015X

Publisher Number:

40030424916

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.