<p>The book presents a systematic theoretical account of the fundamental constructional mechanisms that underlie deverbal nominalization in general, and it makes an original descriptive contribution by discussing a number of nominalization systems in detail.</p> <p>The main theoretical motif is that
Conversion in English: A Cognitive Semantic Approach
โ Scribed by Sandor Martsa
- Publisher
- Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 323
- Category
- Library
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