Morphosyntactic alternations in English : functional and cognitive perspectives

Introduction Pilar Guerrero Medina Part I. Theoretically-oriented approaches to the issue of morphosyntactic alternations Alternations as a heuristic to verb meaning and the semantics of constructions Kristin Davidse, University of Leuven The study of alternations in a dialogic Functional Discourse Grammar J. Lachlan Mackenzie, VU University Amsterdam Constraints on syntactic alternation: Lexical-constructional subsumption in the Lexical-Constructional Model Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza, University of La Rioja, and Ricardo Mairal Uson, National Distance Education University, Spain Alternation and Participant Role: A contribution from a Systemic Functional Grammar Amy C. Neale, National Digital Research Center, Ireland Part II. Studies of specific alternations II.1 Transitivity alternations involving a change in the configuration of semantic roles The causative/inchoative alternation in Functional Discourse Grammar Daniel Garcia Velasco, University of Oviedo Spontaneous and facilitative events revisited: A cognitive comparative study Juana I. Marin Arrese, Universidad Complutense de Madrid The semantics of English middles and pseudo-middles Casilda Garcia de la Maza, University of the Basque Country An antipassive interpretation of the English conative alternationA": Semantic and discourse-pragmatic dimensions Pilar Guerrero Medina II.2 Alternations involving a change in the morphosyntactic expression and/or placement of arguments A frame-semantic approach to syntactic alternations with build-verbs Hans C. Boas, University of Texas, Austin Acquiring a constituent order alternation: A corpus-based perspective on early particle placement Stefan Th. Gries, University of California, Santa Barbara Looks, appearances and judgements: Towards a unified constructionist analysis of predicative complements in English and Spanish Francisco Gonzalvez-Garcia, University of Almeria Metonymy-motivated morphosyntactic alternations Antonio Barcelona Sanchez, University of Cordoba An FDG approach to the Swarm-alternation as a case of conversion Carmen Portero Munoz, University of Cordoba Morphological relatedness and zero alternation in Old English Javier Martin Arista , University of La Rioja