Stretched Verb Constructions in English

✍ Scribed by D. J. Allerton

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 314
• Series: Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Constructions such as 'make an accusation against', or 'give one's approval for' can be seen as 'stretched' versions of simple verbs, such as 'accuse' or 'approve of'. What is the precise linguistic nature of stretched verbs, and how many basic types are there? What kinds of grammatical connections are involved, and what lexical limits are there on these constructions? What is their precise semantic value? These are some of the questions that this book sets out to answer in its investigation of stretched verb constructions.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of figures......Page 11
List of tables......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
I.1 Towards a definition of kindred relations'......Page 18
I.2 Stretched elaborated verb structures......Page 30
I.3 Using data......Page 45
II.1 Syntactic framework......Page 50
II.2 Types of restructuring......Page 69
III.1 Eventive and agentive noun phrases: their core......Page 128
III.2 Eventive and agentive noun phrases......Page 154
III.3 Agentive adjective phrases......Page 174
IV.1 The individual thin verbs, their meanings and collocations......Page 184
IV.2 The grammatical meanings of thin verbs......Page 207
V.1 The semantics of stretched verb constructions......Page 230
V.2 Stretched verb constructions and the lexicon......Page 254
A final thought......Page 269
Appendix......Page 270
Glossary......Page 295
Bibliography......Page 298
Index......Page 308

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Английский язык;Грамматика / English Grammar;Теоретическая грамматика / Theoretical Grammar of English;