Asymmetric events /
The book introduces the concept of asymmetric events, an important concept in language and cognition, which, for the first time in linguistic literature, is identified in a more systematic way and analyzed in a number of different languages, including typologically or genetically unrelated ones. Asy...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2008.
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| Series: | Converging evidence in language and communication research ;
v. 11. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Asymmetric Events; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; Event chains and complex events; Asymmetry in English multi-verb sequences; Asymmetries for locating events with Cora spatial language; Spanish (de)queísmo; What does coordination look like in a head-final language?; Verb serialization as a means of expressing complex events in Thai; Notional asymmetry in syntactic symmetry; Subordination, nominalization, modification; Subordination in cognitive grammar; Asymmetric events, subordination, and grammatical categories; Asymmetry reversal.
