Locative Alternation
A lexical-constructional approach
The aim of the present volume is two-fold: to give a coherent account of the locative alternation in English, and to develop a constructional theory that overcomes a number of problems in earlier constructional accounts. The lexical-constructional account proposed here is characterized by two main features. On the one hand, it emphasizes the need for a detailed examination of verb meanings. On the other, it introduces lower-level constructions such as verb-class-specific constructions and verb-specific constructions, and makes full use of these lower-level constructions in accounting for alternation phenomena. Rather than being a completely new version of construction grammar, the proposed lexical-constructional account is an automatic consequence of the basic tenet of constructional approaches as being usage-based.
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 6] 2008. xiv, 239 pp.
Publishing status: Available
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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | pp. xiii–xiv
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Chapter 1. Introduction | pp. 1–10
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Chapter 2. Two previous analyses | pp. 11–26
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Chapter 3. A lexical-constructional account of the locative alternation | pp. 27–52
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Chapter 4. More on the location-as-object variant | pp. 53–64
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Chapter 5. Another look at putative non-alternating cases | pp. 65–86
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Chapter 6. The locative alternation and verb meaning | pp. 87–100
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Chapter 7. Types of verb meaning and types of alternation | pp. 101–118
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Chapter 8. Further issues | pp. 119–132
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Chapter 9. The locative alternation with verbs of removal | pp. 133–148
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Chapter 10. Morphologically complex cases | pp. 149–168
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Chapter 11. The locative alternation in Japanese | pp. 169–206
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Chapter 12. Summary and conclusion | pp. 207–212
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Notes | pp. 221–231
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Index of names | p. 233
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Index of subjects | p. 235
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Index of verbs | p. 237
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Index of constructions | p. 239
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