Frame-Constructional Verb Classes: Change and Theft verbs in English and German
Ryan Dux
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 28] 2020. x, 320 pp.
Ryan Dux
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ryan Dux plays a role.
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Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2020 Code-switching and loan translation in German-American: A cognitive-constructional account The Wealth and Breadth of Construction-Based Research, Colleman, Timothy, Frank Brisard, Astrid De Wit, Renata Enghels, Nikos Koutsoukos, Tanja Mortelmans and María Sol Sansiñena (eds.), pp. 52–65 | Article
This squib applies and extends insights from (Diasystematic) Construction Grammar to the code-switching and loan-translation of English verbs (and verbal constructions) in US-German dialects. After presenting recent findings about the nature and interaction of language contact phenomena, I… read more
2018 Texas German and English word order constructions in contact Constructions in Contact: Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages, Boas, Hans C. and Steffen Höder (eds.), pp. 211–249 | Chapter
After reviewing previous accounts of Texas German (TxG) syntax, I define the basic word order constructions of English and German and identify which are identical across the languages (i.e. diaconstructions). Next, I analyze 300 TxG utterances and determine whether their syntax corresponds more… read more