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Comparing constructions across languages
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Hans C. Boas
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Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Comparing constructions across languages 1
- Comparing comparatives 21
- Contrasting constructions in English and Spanish 43
- Conditional constructions in English and Russian 87
- Results, cases, and constructions 103
- A contrastive study of the caused-motion and ditransitive constructions in English and Thai 137
- On expressing measurement and comparison in English and Japanese 169
- Revising Talmy’s typological classification of complex event constructions 201
- Index of constructions 237
- Index of languages 239
- Author index 241
- Subject index 243
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Comparing constructions across languages 1
- Comparing comparatives 21
- Contrasting constructions in English and Spanish 43
- Conditional constructions in English and Russian 87
- Results, cases, and constructions 103
- A contrastive study of the caused-motion and ditransitive constructions in English and Thai 137
- On expressing measurement and comparison in English and Japanese 169
- Revising Talmy’s typological classification of complex event constructions 201
- Index of constructions 237
- Index of languages 239
- Author index 241
- Subject index 243