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Publication details [#27993]
Levin, Beth. 1993. English verb classes and alternations: A preliminary investigation. The University of Chicago Press. xviii + 348 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
ISBN
0 226 47533 6
Annotation
This book on the relationship between syntax and semantics of English verbs, offers a list of diathesis alternations 'relevant to a speaker's lexical knowledge of English' and a list of 'syntactically relevant, semantically coherent' verb classes.