Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics. Functional and cognitive perspectives.

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Title: Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics. Functional and cognitive perspectives.
Description: Drawing on data extracted from the British National Corpus and the Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual in conjunction with elicitation data from native speakers, this chapter constitutes a first step towards a constructionist, usage-based analysis of secondary predication with verba dicendi et declarandi (e.g., say, declare, decir'say', declarar'declare') in English and Spanish. Within this environment (the'declarative subjective-transitive'construction), at least three lower-level (i.e., item-specific) configurations can be posited in th
Authors: GÓMEZ GONZÁLEZ, María de los Ángeles, J. Lachlan MACKENZIE and Elsa M. GONZÁLEZ ÁLVAREZ (eds.)
Resource Type: eBook.
Subjects: Contrastive linguistics, Grammar, Comparative and general--Phonology, Comparative
Categories: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative
Database: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
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Abstract:Drawing on data extracted from the British National Corpus and the Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual in conjunction with elicitation data from native speakers, this chapter constitutes a first step towards a constructionist, usage-based analysis of secondary predication with verba dicendi et declarandi (e.g., say, declare, decir'say', declarar'declare') in English and Spanish. Within this environment (the'declarative subjective-transitive'construction), at least three lower-level (i.e., item-specific) configurations can be posited in th
ISBN:9789027215710
9789027289681