| A Corpus-Based Study of Nominalizations Predicated by English Deverbal Nouns in «-Tion»: A Cognitive Grammar Approach Contributor(s): Szawerna, Michal (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631569017 ISBN-13: 9783631569016 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $108.78 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Semantics - Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric |
| Dewey: 808 |
| LCCN: 2008374681 |
| Series: European University Studies: Series 14, Anglo-Saxon Language |
| Physical Information: 276 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book offers a corpus-based cognitive grammar account of the full range of nominalizations predicated by English deverbal nouns in -tion. Collectively, these nominalizations make up a category whose internal structure is presented in the form of a schematic network model. In this model, the nominalizations are characterized at varying levels of abstraction, from the topmost highly abstract all-embracing schema to its most specific low-level instantiations. In turn, the model's mid-level schemas embody generalizations over individual nominalization kinds distinguished on the basis of their profile, i.e. the facet of the nominalization's underlying process - be it the trajector, the landmark, or the entire sequence of states making up this process - which has been selected for reification. |