Causation, Permission, and Transfer : Argument Realisation in Get, Take, Put, Give and Let Verbs Hardback
Edited by Brian Nolan, Gudrun Rawoens, Elke Diedrichsen
Part of the Studies in Language Companion Series series
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This book offers a comprehensive investigative study of the argument realisation of the concepts of causative purpose, permit, let/allow and transfer in a broad cross-linguistic typologically diverse mix of languages with GIVE, GET, TAKE, PUT, and LET verbs.
This volume stands as the first systematic exploration of these verbs and concepts as they occur in complex events and clauses.
This book brings together scholars and researchers from a variety of functionally inspired theoretical backgrounds that have worked on these verbs within one language or from a cross-linguistic perspective.
The objective is to understand the linguistic behaviour of the verbs and their inter-relationships within a contemporary cognitive-functional linguistic perspective.
The languages represented include Irish, German, Slavic (West Slavic: Polish, Czech, Slovak and Sorbian and Western South Slavic: Slovenian and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian), Germanic, Romance, Gan Chinese Yichun dialect, Maori, Bohairic Coptic, Shaowu Chinese, Hebrew, English, Lithuanian, Estonian, the Australian dialects Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara, Italian, and Persian.
Topics discussed include argument structure and the encoding of arguments under causation, permission and transferverbs, their lexical semantics and event structure.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:499 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
- Publication Date:14/01/2015
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- ISBN:9789027259325
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:499 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
- Publication Date:14/01/2015
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- ISBN:9789027259325
