Locative Alternation
A lexical-constructional approach
- Author(s): Seizi Iwata 1
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations:1 Osaka City University
- Format: PDF
- Publication Date June 2008
- e-Book ISBN: 9789027291042
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.6
The aim of the present volume is two-fold: to give a coherent account of the locative alternation in English, and to develop a constructional theory that overcomes a number of problems in earlier constructional accounts. The lexical-constructional account proposed here is characterized by two main features. On the one hand, it emphasizes the need for a detailed examination of verb meanings. On the other, it introduces lower-level constructions such as verb-class-specific constructions and verb-specific constructions, and makes full use of these lower-level constructions in accounting for alternation phenomena. Rather than being a completely new version of construction grammar, the proposed lexical-constructional account is an automatic consequence of the basic tenet of constructional approaches as being usage-based.
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