Comparing constructions across languages

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Comparing constructions across languages 1
5. Comparing comparatives 21
6. Contrasting constructions in English and Spanish 43
7. Conditional constructions in English and Russian 87
8. Results, cases, and constructions 103
9. A contrastive study of the caused-motion and ditransitive constructions in English and Thai 137
10. On expressing measurement and comparison in English and Japanese 169
11. Revising Talmy’s typological classification of complex event constructions 201
12. Index of constructions 237
13. Index of languages 239
14. Author index 241
15. Subject index 243