{"product_id":"morphosyntactic-alternations-in-english-1","title":"Morphosyntactic Alternations in English","description":"This volume brings together fourteen papers which explore the discourse-pragmatic, semantic, morphological and syntactic factors involved in English morphosyntactic alternations. The contributors to this volume deal with different types of “diathesis alternations” —broadly defined by Levin (\u003ci\u003eEnglish Verb Classes and Alternations: A Preliminary Investigation\u003c\/i\u003e, 1993) as “alternations in the expressions of arguments, sometimes accompanied by changes of meaning” —i.e. transitivity alternations (such as the causative\/inchoative alternation and the conative alternation), alternations involving arguments within the VP (such as the Swarm-alternation, and the dative or benefactive alternations), etc. The volume will also include some contributions dealing more generally with the issues of morphological relatedness and verb-specific alternations within functionalist, cognitive and\/or constructionist frameworks. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nThe book features a wide range of theoretical approaches, ranging from functionalist models such as Functional Discourse Grammar or the Cardiff Grammar version of Systemic Functional Linguistics to more cognitively-oriented approaches such as Goldberg’s Construction Grammar or Fillmore’s Frame Semantics. This attempt to describe morphosyntactic alternations within different contemporary theories¬¬ —derivational and non-derivational— will hopefully contribute to a better understanding of the linguistic phenomena traditionally subsumed under the rubric of morphosyntactic alternation. The book will be of interest to experienced linguists and researchers of a functionalist, cognitivist or even functional-typological persuasion.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pilar Guerrero Medina","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54970089963900,"sku":"9781845537449","price":76.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781845537449_c6b12e6f-81e5-4137-893e-f51a95e20bf2.jpg?v=1740402948","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/morphosyntactic-alternations-in-english-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}