Through electronic corpora we can observe patterns which we were unaware of before or only vaguely glimpsed. The availability of multilingual corpora has led to a renewal of contrastive studies. We gain new insight into similarities and differences between languages, at the same…
"Spoken language is characterized by the occurrence of linguistic devices such as discourse markers (e.g. 'so', 'well', 'you know', 'I mean') and other so-called "disfluent" phenomena, which reflect the temporal nature of the cognitive mechanisms underlying speech production and…
Spoken language is characterized by the occurrence of linguistic devices such as discourse markers (e.g. 'so', 'well', 'you know', 'I mean') and other so-called "disfluent" phenomena, which reflect the temporal nature of the cognitive mechanisms underlying speech production and …
This book presents an analysis of how speakers of typologically diverse languages report present-time situations. It begins from the assumption that there is a restriction on the use of the present tense to report present-time dynamic/perfective situations, while with stative/im…
In recent years, issues of verbal valency, valency alternations and verb classes have seen a new upsurge of interest from a variety of perspectives. This book comprises articles investigating valency phenomena on a contrastive basis within Romance, Germanic and Slavic, and also …
In recent years, issues of verbal valency, valency alternations and verb classes have seen a new upsurge of interest from a variety of perspectives. This book comprises articles investigating valency phenomena on a contrastive basis within Romance, Germanic and Slavic, and also …