English Mediopassive Constructions: A Cognitive, Corpus-based Study of Their Origin, Spread, and Current StatusRodopi, 2007 - 222 Seiten This book provides the first empirical study of the history and spread of mediopassive constructions. It investigates the productivity of the pattern, the spread of the construction in Modern English, and looks into text type-specific preferences for the construction. On a more abstract level, it combines the corpus-based description of mediopassive constructions with cognitive linguistic models, drawing largely on notions such as 'prototype', 'family resemblances', 'patch' and 'construction'. The theoretical modelling is largely based on data from real texts. These come from publicly available machine-readable corpora, text-databases and a single-register 'corpus' (American mail-order catalogues). The study combines the corpus-based approach with cognitive theories and is therefore of interest to both empirical and theoretical linguists. |
Inhalt
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7 | |
xi | 19 |
Theoretical background | 53 |
The mediopassive in Present Day English | 81 |
54 | 108 |
The history of mediopassives | 129 |
Conclusion | 171 |
181 | |
Primary material | 195 |
Additional tables and figures | 203 |
130 | 209 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
able-adjectives adjectives adverbial advertising language agent animacy ARCHER aspect attested example be-passive chapter clitic cognitive Cognitive Grammar corpus data Corpus Linguistics diachronic easily EModE ergative constructions ergative verbs evidence Fagan Fellbaum & Zribi-Hertz Figure fish FLOB following examples frequency of mediopassive frequency of reflexive Frown get-passive grammar Halliday hypothesis inanimate subjects inherent properties inherently transitive verbs inheritance links instance intransitive intransitive clause Lemmens lexical Linguistic locative marginal mediopas mediopassive constructions mediopassive formation mediopassive sell middle constructions middle formation modal notion NP in subject occur one-million-word corpora overlap participant roles passive patient patient-subject constructions pattern meaning perfective aspect pragmatic prototype approach prototype theory psychological event verbs reflexive constructions reflexive pronouns reflexive variants relative frequency Roebuck and Co Roebuck catalogue Sears & Roebuck semantic semantic roles sive constructions Sky Mall structure subject position syntactic Table tions transitive construction transitive pattern Transitivity profiles typical unmarked variation voice
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 185 - Be' and Its Synonyms, Philosophical and Grammatical Studies (ed. by JWM Verhaar), Vol. I, Dordrecht, pp. 1-39. Halliday, MAK (1966), 'Some Notes on "Deep" Grammar', Journal of Linguistics 2, 57-67. Halliday, MAK (1967a), Grammar, Society and the Noun, inaugural lecture 1966, University College London. Halliday, MAK (1967b), 'Notes on Transitivity and Theme in English', Journal of Linguistics 3, 37-81, 199-244.