The Contribution of Argument Structure Constructions to Sentence Meaning

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 640-651

  Bencini, Giulia M L ^a   Goldberg, Adele E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Argument structure constructions; verbs; sentence meaning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003006833     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmla.2000.2757     Document Type: Article

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