English Mediopassive Constructions: A Cognitive, Corpus-based Study of Their Origin, Spread, and Current StatusRodopi, 2007 - 222 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. |
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Theoretical background | 53 |
The mediopassive in Present Day English | 81 |
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The history of mediopassives | 129 |
Conclusion | 171 |
References | 181 |
Primary material | 195 |
Additional tables and figures | 203 |
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Strona 60 - An inventory of semantic roles can always be refined and articulated into more specific types on the basis of further data or a finer-grained analysis — at the extreme, every verb defines a distinct set of participant roles that reflect its own unique semantic properties (eg the subject of bite is a slightly different kind of agent from the subject of chew).
Strona 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.
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