A constructional account of verb-forming suffixation / Jacqueline Laws, University of Reading.
| Author/creator | Laws, Jacqueline |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2023. |
| Description | pages cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Constructional approaches to language, 1573-594X ; volume 36 |
| Abstract | "The range of meanings expressed by derivatives formed by the attachment of the four principal verb-forming suffixes ate, en, ify and ize has been the subject of extensive analysis for over two decades. From a descriptive perspective, the research reported here constitutes the most comprehensive usage-based analysis of verbal derivatives available to date and provides register-based and diachronic comparisons of usage and distribution patterns across corpora of spoken English. The semantic analysis adopts the seven well-established semantic categories of verbal derivatives and extends the set to twenty by including further meaning classes documented in the morphological literature and additional senses that emerged from the contextualized analysis of complex verbs in the datasets. From a theoretical perspective, the novel approach involves the explicit linking of affix schemas from Construction Morphology to argument structure constructions from Construction Grammar, and proposes a unified model of verb-forming suffixation that accounts for the multi-functional characteristics of verbal derivatives"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023028214 |
| ISBN | 9789027214119 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
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