Causation in Dutch and French. Interpersonal Aspects
After a brief sketch of the lexicogrammatical potential for expressing causation in natural language, more specifically in DutcFrench, I will try to give a semantic description of these causative constructions focusing both on the common and diverging underlying meanings of the different realisational alternatives. Attention will be pthe specificities of working in a multilingual environment. I will concentrate on the so-called analytic (or periphrastic) causative construction and show how this particular type of causal realisation can baccounted for in a systemic framework, arguing that it is... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | bookPart |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 1996 |
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John Benjamins
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Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27451358 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/137208 |
After a brief sketch of the lexicogrammatical potential for expressing causation in natural language, more specifically in DutcFrench, I will try to give a semantic description of these causative constructions focusing both on the common and diverging underlying meanings of the different realisational alternatives. Attention will be pthe specificities of working in a multilingual environment. I will concentrate on the so-called analytic (or periphrastic) causative construction and show how this particular type of causal realisation can baccounted for in a systemic framework, arguing that it is in fact realised interpersonally by grammatical metaphor.