Surface generalizations: An alternative to alternations

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 327-356

  Goldberg, Adele E ^a  

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

Author keywords

adjuncts; alternations; argument structure; constructions

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009975551     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cogl.2002.022     Document Type: Article

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