Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction. Lexicalization, grammaticalization and constructionalization of the verb give across languages 1
5. Part 1. Frames and extensions
6. Chapter 1. Metaphor meets grammar in a radial network of give verbs in Romance 25
7. Chapter 2. Talking about giving 55
8. Part 2. The transfer constructions
9. Chapter 3. The role of verb polysemy in constructional profiling 75
10. Chapter 4. The French ditransitive transfer construction and the complementarity between the meta-predicates give, take, keep, leave 97
11. Chapter 5. Transfer and applicative constructions in Gunwinyguan languages (non-Pama-Nyungan, Australia) 121
12. Part 3. Grammaticalization, lexicalization and constructionalization issues
13. Chapter 6. Aoj ‘give’ in Khmer 147
14. Chapter 7. The semantics of the verb give in Tibetan 175
15. Chapter 8. GEI 195
16. Chapter 9. Grammar in usage and grammaticalization of dan ‘give’ constructions in Kurmanji Kurdish 223
17. Subject index 245