Romance Perspectives on Construction Grammar / edited by Hans C. Boas, University of Texas at Austin ; Francisco Gonzálvez García, University of Almeria.
Spanish constructions of telic motion with manner verbs are somewhat problematic for the Talmian typology, while also posing a challenge for constructionist frameworks anchored in English grammar. In response to Talmy (2000), Aske (1989), Morimoto (2008), and Beavers et al. (2010) among others, I de...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam, the Netherlands ; Philadelphia, PA :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2014]
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| Series: | Constructional approaches to language ;
v. 15. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Spanish constructions of telic motion with manner verbs are somewhat problematic for the Talmian typology, while also posing a challenge for constructionist frameworks anchored in English grammar. In response to Talmy (2000), Aske (1989), Morimoto (2008), and Beavers et al. (2010) among others, I demonstrate in this article that this construction type tends to be acceptable whenever the lexical meaning of the verb implies an element of directed motion. Drawing on Goldberg (2006) and Pedersen (2009, 2013), I suggest that schematicity is a typological parameter, and, more specifically, that the. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 316 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9027269637 9789027269638 |
| ISSN: | 1573-594X ; |