The English Change Network

Download or read book The English Change Network written by Cristiano Broccias and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the notion of change construction and systematically studies, within a Cognitive Grammar framework, the rich inventory of its instantiations in English, from well-known structures such as the so-called resultative construction to a variety of largely ignored types such as asymmetric resultatives, sublexical change constructions and mildly causal constructions.