Getting at the meaning of the English at-construction: the case of a constructional split
On the basis of a corpus-based study of the at-frame in English, this article evaluates Goldberg’s (2006) hypothesis that constructional meaning originates with the meaning of the verbs frequently occurring in a given syntactic pattern. Our study reveals that for the at-construction, this hypothesis...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive
2010-12-01
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| Series: | CogniTextes |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/cognitextes/331 |