Meri Larjavaara
List of John Benjamins publications for which Meri Larjavaara plays a role.
Article
2016 The semantic motivation of non-canonical predicative relations: The French transitive construction Atypical predicate-argument relations, Ruchot, Thierry and Pascale Van Praet (eds.), pp. 163–179 | Article
The paper discusses the semantic motivation behind the non-standard transitive usage of verbs in contemporary French. An example would be the following: On m’a démissionné hier (‘they fired me yesterday’). In the normative language variety, démissionner is used only in the intransitive construction… read more