A Constructional Account of Verb-Forming Suffixation
Jacqueline Laws
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 36] 2023. xxiv, 393 pp.
Jacqueline Laws
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jacqueline Laws plays a role.
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Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
2018 Register variation in spoken British English: The case of verb-forming suffixation International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 23:1, pp. 1–27 | Article
The aim of this paper is to identify the effect of register variation in spoken British English on the occurrence of the four principal verb-forming suffixes: ‑ate, ‑en, ‑ify and ‑ize, by building on the work of Biber et al. (1999), Plag et al. (1999) and Schmid (2011). Register variation… read more
2017 A diachronic corpus-based study into the effects of age and gender on the usage patterns of verb-forming suffixation in spoken British English Compiling and analysing the Spoken British National Corpus 2014, McEnery, Tony, Robbie Love and Vaclav Brezina (eds.), pp. 375–402 | Article
The aim of this paper is to ascertain the degree to which lexical diversity, density and creativity in everyday spoken British English have changed over a 20-year period, as a function of age and gender. Usage patterns of four verb-forming suffixes, -ate, -en, -ify and -ize, were compared in… read more
2010 Is the core-peripheral distinction for unaccusative verbs cross-linguistically consistent? Empirical evidence from Mandarin Chinese Language and Discourse 1:2, pp. 220–263 | Article
This paper presents the results of an empirical investigation into the characteristics of unaccusativity in Mandarin by building on the gradient approach to split intransitivity (Sorace, 2000) and previous analyses of Mandarin within that framework (Liu, 2007). The study explores the acceptability… read more
Complex verbs in English: The relationship between verb-forming suffix schemas and argument structure constructions Constructions and Frames: Online-First Articles | Article
This paper relates two levels of constructional analysis in accounting for the functions of verb-forming suffixation in English: argument structure constructions and suffix schemas. The function of verbal-forming suffixation expressed by the four suffixes in English, -ize, -ify, -en, and -ate,… read more