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Construing confrontation: Grammar in the construction of a key historical narrative in Umpithamu KU Leuven
This study provides a linguistic perspective on the structure and the interpretation of a key historical narrative in Umpithamu (a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula, Australia), against the background of a larger corpus of narrative texts in Umpithamu. The analysis focuses on the role of participant tracking devices in the macro-structure of the narrative, and the role of case marking in the build-up of narrative motifs. It is argued ...
Construing confrontation. Grammar in the construction of a key historical narrative in Umpithamu KU Leuven
Jiyoung Yoon & Stefan Gries (red.), Corpus-based Approaches to Construction Grammar University of Antwerp
Believe-type raising-to-object and raising-to-subject verbs in English and Dutch: a contrastive investigation in diachronic construction grammar Ghent University
The so-called U+201Craising-to-subjectU+201D pattern that verbs of the type believe can occur in is usually treated as the passive alternative for the so-called U+201Craising-to-objectU+201D pattern. In addition to broadening the empirical basis for the opposite claim that the English and Dutch raising-to-subject (or U+201Cnominative and infinitiveU+201D) patterns have a special functionality which is different from that of the passive ...