Causative, agent-deprofiling, and resultative constructions in English and Urdu : a cognitive-contrastive approach /
"The aim of this book is to offer a comparative analysis of intra- and inter-linguistic features, setting a benchmark for future typological studies. To this end, it contrasts cognitive and functional aspects of causative, agent-deprofiling, and resultative constructions in two typologically di...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Peter Lang,
2024.
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| Series: | Duisburg papers on research in language and culture ;
vol. no. 131 |
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| Summary: | "The aim of this book is to offer a comparative analysis of intra- and inter-linguistic features, setting a benchmark for future typological studies. To this end, it contrasts cognitive and functional aspects of causative, agent-deprofiling, and resultative constructions in two typologically distant languages: English and Urdu. The detailed nature of the contrastive analysis opens doors for future research on the complexities of each construction and, by extension, of both languages. The study is framed within the field of cognitively-oriented constructionist approaches to language, more specifically, within the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM), proposed by Ruiz de Mendoza and Mairal. With its cross-linguistic dimension, it develops central aspects of this model at the argument-structure level and provides evidence of the role of high-level metaphor and metonymy in the motivation of grammatical phenomena"-- |
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| Physical Description: | pages cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783631918029 363191802X |