Gaëtanelle Gilquin, Corpus, Cognition and Causative Constructions (Studies in Corpus Linguistics)
ISBN: 9027223130 | edition 2010 | PDF | 347 pages | 7 mb
ISBN: 9027223130 | edition 2010 | PDF | 347 pages | 7 mb
English causative constructions with cause, get, have and make are often mistakenly presented as (quasi-)synonymous and more or less interchangeable. This book demonstrates the value of corpus linguistics in identifying the syntactic, semantic, lexical and stylistic features that are distinctive for each of these constructions.