Cross-linguistic perspectives on verb constructions / edited by Signe Oksefjell Ebeling and Hilde Hasselgård.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cross-linguistic perspectives on verb constructions / Signe Oksefjell Ebeling and Hilde Hasselgård -- Looking for differences in our silences: A corpus-based approach to object omission in English and Spanish / Tania de Dios -- A contrastive study of Norwegian pseudo-coordination and two English posture-verb constructions / Signe Oksefjell Ebeling -- English translations of Norwegian infinitival complement constructions / Thomas Egan -- Coming and going to the future: Future-referring expressions in English and Norwegian / Hilde Hasselgård -- Semiperiphrastic constructions in English: A contrastive corpus study / Marlén Izquierdo -- GIVE and TAKE. A contrastive study of light verb constructions in English, German and Swedish / Magnus Levin & Jenny Ström Herold -- Translation counterparts as indicators of the boundaries of units of meaning: A contrastive view of the position of 'come V-ing' among the patterns of the verb come / Markéta Malá -- Evidential passive constructions in English and their equivalents in Lithuanian / Anna Ruskan -- Contrasts in construction and semantic composition: The verbs of putting in English and Swedish in an intra-typological perspective / Åke Viberg.

This volume sheds new light on verb constructions by exposing them to cross-linguistic analysis based on multilingual corpora. It is composed of nine studies which provide insights into various aspects of cross-linguistic diversity, including showing that seemingly equivalent verb constructions may differ in their semantics, and that similar meanings may be expressed by different types of constructions. In other words, this book shows that different languages have different ways of lexicalising verb-based meanings, most notably by means of other, divergent verb constructions. A range of lexico.

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