Morphosyntactic Alternations in EnglishFunctional and Cognitive Perspectives
Edited by: Pilar Guerrero Medina
Series: Functional Linguistics Hardback Price £55.00/$95.00 |    |
Description
This volume brings together fourteen papers which explore the discourse-pragmatic, semantic, morphological and syntactic factors involved in English morphosyntactic alternations. The contributors to this volume deal with different types of “diathesis alternations” —broadly defined by Levin (English Verb Classes and Alternations: A Preliminary Investigation, 1993) as “alternations in the expressions of arguments, sometimes accompanied by changes of meaning” —i.e. transitivity alternations (such as the causative/inchoative alternation and the conative alternation), alternations involving arguments within the VP (such as the Swarm-alternation, and the dative or benefactive alternations), etc. The volume will also include some contributions dealing more generally with the issues of morphological relatedness and verb-specific alternations within functionalist, cognitive and/or constructionist frameworks.
The book features a wide range of theoretical approaches, ranging from functionalist models such as Functional Discourse Grammar or the Cardiff Grammar version of Systemic Functional Linguistics to more cognitively-oriented approaches such as Goldberg’s Construction Grammar or Fillmore’s Frame Semantics. This attempt to describe morphosyntactic alternations within different contemporary theories¬¬ —derivational and non-derivational— will hopefully contribute to a better understanding of the linguistic phenomena traditionally subsumed under the rubric of morphosyntactic alternation. The book will be of interest to experienced linguists and researchers of a functionalist, cognitivist or even functional-typological persuasion.
This volume brings together fourteen papers which explore the discourse-pragmatic, semantic, morphological and syntactic factors involved in English morphosyntactic alternations. The contributors to this volume deal with different types of “diathesis alternations” —broadly defined by Levin (English Verb Classes and Alternations: A Preliminary Investigation, 1993) as “alternations in the expressions of arguments, sometimes accompanied by changes of meaning” —i.e. transitivity alternations (such as the causative/inchoative alternation and the conative alternation), alternations involving arguments within the VP (such as the Swarm-alternation, and the dative or benefactive alternations), etc. The volume will also include some contributions dealing more generally with the issues of morphological relatedness and verb-specific alternations within functionalist, cognitive and/or constructionist frameworks.
The book features a wide range of theoretical approaches, ranging from functionalist models such as Functional Discourse Grammar or the Cardiff Grammar version of Systemic Functional Linguistics to more cognitively-oriented approaches such as Goldberg’s Construction Grammar or Fillmore’s Frame Semantics. This attempt to describe morphosyntactic alternations within different contemporary theories¬¬ —derivational and non-derivational— will hopefully contribute to a better understanding of the linguistic phenomena traditionally subsumed under the rubric of morphosyntactic alternation. The book will be of interest to experienced linguists and researchers of a functionalist, cognitivist or even functional-typological persuasion.
Contents
Introduction
Pilar Guerrero Medina
Part I. Theoretically-oriented approaches to the issue of morphosyntactic alternations
Alternations as a heuristic to verb meaning and the semantics of constructions
Kristin Davidse, University of Leuven
The study of alternations in a dialogic Functional Discourse Grammar
J. Lachlan Mackenzie, VU University Amsterdam
Constraints on syntactic alternation: Lexical-constructional subsumption in the Lexical-Constructional Model
Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza, University of La Rioja, and Ricardo Mairal Usón, National Distance Education University, Spain
Alternation and Participant Role: A contribution from a Systemic Functional Grammar
Amy C. Neale, National Digital Research Center, Ireland
Part II. Studies of specific alternations
II.1 Transitivity alternations involving a change in the configuration of semantic roles
The causative/inchoative alternation in Functional Discourse Grammar
Daniel García Velasco, University of Oviedo
Spontaneous and facilitative events revisited
Juana I. Marín-Arrese, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
The semantics of English middles and pseudo-middles
Casilda García de la Maza, University of the Basque Country
An antipassive interpretation of the English “conative alternation”: Semantic and discourse-pragmatic dimensions
Pilar Guerrero Medina
II.2 Alternations involving a change in the morphosyntactic expression and/or placement of arguments
A frame-semantic approach to syntactic alternations: The case of build-verbs
Hans C. Boas, University of Texas, Austin
Acquiring particle placement in English: A corpus-based perspective
Stefan Th. Gries, University of California, Santa Barbara
Looks, appearances and judgements: Towards a unified constructionist analysis of predicative complements in English and Spanish
Francisco Gonzálvez-García, University of Almería
Metonymy-motivated morphosyntactic alternations
Antonio Barcelona Sánchez, University of Córdoba
An Functional Discourse Grammar approach to the Swarm-alternation as a case of conversion
Carmen Portero Muñoz, University of Córdoba
Morphological relatedness and zero alternation in Old English
Javier Martín Arista , University of La Rioja
Specifications
| ISBN-13 (Hardback) | 9781845537449 |
| Price (Hardback) | £55.00/$95.00 |
| Publication Date | March 2011 |
| Pages | 388 |
| Size | 234 x 156mm |
| Illustrations | 36 figures |
| Readership | postgraduate and scholarly |
| Book Status | Not yet published |
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