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A Comparative Study on the Verb Way Construction: English and Dutch
Cross-Cultural Studies
2011,
24(), pp.227-252
DOI : 10.21049/ccs.2011.24..227
Publisher : Center for Cross Culture Studies
Research Area : Literature
DOI : 10.21049/ccs.2011.24..227
Publisher : Center for Cross Culture Studies
Research Area : Literature
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This paper is intended to describe the idiosyncratic aspects of the verb way construction in English, clarifying the productivity property of this construction and to elucidate the claim that this construction displays the properties of language-general, not a language-particular by comparing the behaviors from Dutch. And this paper will argue against the lexical approach and explain the drastic mismatches in syntax and semantics responsible for the constructional properties as one type of directional motion constructions by proposing a constructional analysis in HPSG.
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