Naslov
Doing Tsukahara and the Epley in a cross-linguistic perspective

Autori
Brdar-Szabó, Rita ; Brdar, Mario

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Constructing Families of Constructions

Urednik/ci
Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José ; Luzondo Oyón, Alba ; Pérez Sobrino, Paula

Izdavač
John Benjamins Publishing

Grad
Amsterdam : Philadelphia

Godina
2017

Raspon stranica
77-107

ISBN
978-90-272-4674-5

Ključne riječi
eponym, grammatical construction, light verb, metonymy, proper noun

Sažetak
This chapter studies eponymous verb constructions (EVCs) in medical and sports discourse in English, German, Croatian and Hungarian. These are constructions consisting of a light verb such as to do and an eponymic noun phrase denoting events. A cross-linguistic comparison reveals that, unlike in English, the productivity of EVCs containing reduced eponymic constructions is severely constrained in German, Croatian and Hungarian. These contrasts can be related not only to some structural givens of the languages in question, such as the availability of articles in the language in question, the entrenchment of light verbs, the gender system, but also to the fact that languages can more or less easily accommodate complex metonymies.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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