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Beyond Alternations
Cloth $63.00
ISBN: 9781575863290
Published September 2001
Paper $25.00
ISBN: 9781575863306
Published September 2001
Beyond Alternations provides a unified account of the semantic effects of the German applicative ("be-") construction. Using natural data from a variety of corpora, the authors propose that this pattern is inherently meaningful and that its meaning provides the basis for creative extensions.
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