Title:
Grammatical constructions : their form and meaning / edited by Masayoshi Shibatani and Sandra A. Thompson.
Main Entry:
Shibatani, Masayoshi.
Thompson, Sandra A.
Publisher:
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
Publication Date:
1996.
Publication Place:
Oxford [England] : New York :
ISBN:
0198235399 (acid-free paper)
Subject:
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Structural linguistics.
Contents:
Inalienability and the interpretation of modified noun phrases / Claudia Brugman -- Making one's way through the data / Adele E. Goldberg -- Toward a description of te-linkage in Japanese / Yoko Hasegawa -- Conversational scorekeeping and the interpretation of conditional sentences / James D. McCawley -- Interaction of factors in construal : Japanese relative clauses / Yoshiko Matsumoto -- The situated interpretation of possessor-raising / Mary Catherine O'Connor -- Applicatives and benefactives : a cognitive account / Masayoshi Shibatani -- Two ways to travel : verbs of motion in English and Spanish / Dan I. Slobin -- Reasoning, mappings, and meta-metaphorical conditionals / Eve Sweetser -- The windowing of attention in language / Leonard Talmy -- The case for "effector" : case roles, agents, and agency revisited / Robert D. van Valin Jr. and David P. Wilkins -- The interpreation of deverbal nominals in Tepehua / James K. Watters.
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