The Diachrony of Ditransitives in Late Modern Swedish / Fredrik Valdeson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valdeson, Fredrik, author.

Series:

Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2024.

Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics ; 22

Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2024

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Transitivity.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book presents the first major study of ditransitives in Swedish. Using a combination of well-established and innovative corpus-based methods, the book reveals considerable changes in the constructional behaviour of ditransitive verbs over the course of the last 200 years. The key finding is that the use of the so-called double object construction has decreased dramatically in terms of frequency, lexical richness and semantic range. This development is parallelled by a decisive increase in prepositional object constructions. The results are of high relevance to the ongoing debate within construction grammar on constructional productivity and on the nature of horizontal links.

Contents:

Front Matter

Preliminary Material / Fredrik Valdeson

Copyright Page / Fredrik Valdeson

Chapter 2 Ditransitive Verbs and Constructions / Fredrik Valdeson

Chapter 3 Theory / Fredrik Valdeson

Chapter 4 Data / Fredrik Valdeson

Chapter 5 Research Questions and Methods / Fredrik Valdeson

Chapter 6 The Double Object Construction / Fredrik Valdeson

Chapter 7 The DOC and the POC s / Fredrik Valdeson

Chapter 8 Verb-Specific and Verb-Class-Specific Constructions / Fredrik Valdeson

Chapter 9 Discussion / Fredrik Valdeson

Chapter 10 Summary / Fredrik Valdeson

Back Matter

Appendix 1 Complete Verb Lists of the DOC / Fredrik Valdeson

Appendix 2 Complete Verb Lists of the POC s / Fredrik Valdeson

References / Fredrik Valdeson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Valdeson, Fredrik The Diachrony of Ditransitives in Late Modern Swedish

ISBN:

9789004686410

OCLC:

1439003820

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004686410 DOI