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OverviewThis volume brings together fourteen papers which explore the discourse-pragmatic, semantic, morphological and syntactic factors involved in English morphosyntactic alternations. The contributors to this volume deal with different types of diathesis alternationsA -broadly defined by Levin (English Verb Classes and Alternations. A Preliminary Investigation, 1993) as alternations in the expressions of arguments, sometimes accompanied by changes of meaningA -i.e. transitivity alternations (such as the causative/inchoative alternation and the conative alternation), alternations involving arguments within the VP (such as the Swarm-alternation, and the dative or benefactive alternations), etc. The volume will also include some contributions dealing more generally with the issues of morphological relatedness and verb-specific alternations within functionalist, cognitive and/or constructionist frameworks. The book features a wide range of theoretical approaches, ranging from functionalist models such as Functional Discourse Grammar or the Cardiff Grammar version of Systemic Functional Linguistics to more cognitively-oriented approaches such as Goldberg's Construction Grammar or Fillmore's Frame Semantics. This attempt to describe morphosyntactic alternations within different contemporary theoriesA--A-- -derivational and non-derivational- will hopefully contribute to a better understanding of the linguistic phenomena traditionally subsumed under the rubric of morphosyntactic alternation. The book will be of interest to experienced linguists and researchers of a functionalist, cognitivist or even functional-typological persuasion. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Pilar Guerrero MedinaPublisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd Imprint: Equinox Publishing Ltd Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.726kg ISBN: 9781845537449ISBN 10: 1845537440 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 09 September 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsIntroduction Pilar Guerrero Medina Part I. Theoretically-oriented approaches to the issue of morphosyntactic alternations Alternations as a heuristic to verb meaning and the semantics of constructions Kristin Davidse, University of Leuven The study of alternations in a dialogic Functional Discourse Grammar J. Lachlan Mackenzie, VU University Amsterdam Constraints on syntactic alternation: Lexical-constructional subsumption in the Lexical-Constructional Model Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza, University of La Rioja, and Ricardo Mairal Uson, National Distance Education University, Spain Alternation and Participant Role: A contribution from a Systemic Functional Grammar Amy C. Neale, National Digital Research Center, Ireland Part II. Studies of specific alternations II.1 Transitivity alternations involving a change in the configuration of semantic roles The causative/inchoative alternation in Functional Discourse Grammar Daniel Garcia Velasco, University of Oviedo Spontaneous and facilitative events revisited: A cognitive comparative study Juana I. Marin Arrese, Universidad Complutense de Madrid The semantics of English middles and pseudo-middles Casilda Garcia de la Maza, University of the Basque Country An antipassive interpretation of the English conative alternationA : Semantic and discourse-pragmatic dimensions Pilar Guerrero Medina II.2 Alternations involving a change in the morphosyntactic expression and/or placement of arguments A frame-semantic approach to syntactic alternations with build-verbs Hans C. Boas, University of Texas, Austin Acquiring a constituent order alternation: A corpus-based perspective on early particle placement Stefan Th. Gries, University of California, Santa Barbara Looks, appearances and judgements: Towards a unified constructionist analysis of predicative complements in English and Spanish Francisco Gonzalvez-Garcia, University of Almeria Metonymy-motivated morphosyntactic alternations Antonio Barcelona Sanchez, University of Cordoba An FDG approach to the Swarm-alternation as a case of conversion Carmen Portero Munoz, University of Cordoba Morphological relatedness and zero alternation in Old English Javier Martin Arista , University of La RiojaReviewsBrings together a valuable collection of often challenging papers that not only address alternation phenomena from differing theoretical perspectives, but contribute .. to our understanding of morphosyntactic alternation in general. Functions of Language I found this rich collection of papers a useful overview of some well-known alternations such as the inchoative/middle alteration from a cognitive-functional perspective. Cristiano Broccias, Universita di Genova, Review of Cognitive Linguistics A successful work on the study of English morphosyntactic alternations, which provides new suggestive insights into this complex linguistic phenomenon. It contains, in fact, many reflections and findings that are enlightening, arousing the reader's curiosity and opening interesting new lines of future research. Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies Author InformationPilar Guerrero Medina is Lecturer in English Grammar at the University of Cordoba, Spain. She has mainly conducted her research within a functionalist framework, focusing on the relationship between lexis and grammar on the one hand, and grammar and discourse on the other. Over the past decade, she has published articles on a range of topics, including transitivity in grammar and discourse, grammatical and lexical aspect, Object assignment and the get-passive. While the earlier articles are framed mainly within the Functional Grammar theory of Simon Dik, later work also incorporates insights from the Goldbergian version of Construction Grammar. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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