Tamara Bouso
List of John Benjamins publications for which Tamara Bouso plays a role.
Articles
2024 Towards a usage-based characterisation of the English Superlative Object Construction Constructions and Frames 16:1, pp. 100–129 | Article
Little attention has been paid to the English Superlative Object Construction (SOC), as in She worked her hardest. The historical grammarians Jespersen (1909–1949) and Poutsma (1904–1929) are the only ones who do touch on the SOC, and they do so in passing relying on what seem to be the… read more
2021 Another turn of the screw on the history of the reaction object construction Functions of Language 28:2, pp. 208–231 | Article
This article deals with the Reaction Object Construction (ROC), as in She smiled disbelief, where an intransitive verb (smile), by adding an emotional object (disbelief), acquires the extended sense “express X by V−ing” (i.e. “She expressed disbelief by smiling”). Earlier research has suggested… read more
2020 The growth of the transitivising Reaction Object Construction Constructions and Frames 12:2, pp. 239–271 | Article
This paper explores the growth of the Reaction Object Construction (ROC) as in Pauline smiled her thanks, offering new insights into its characterisation and historical development from the perspective of Construction Grammar (Goldberg 1995, 2006, 2019) and its application to patterns of language… read more