Creating Surprise in Complex Predication
In many languages, the verbs take and go may combine with another predicate to yield an inceptive reading, where the onset of the event denoted by the main predicate is in some sense focalized. Some of these cases have a touch of surprise, unexpectedness, or suddenness to them. Using data mainly fro...
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Septentrio Academic Publishing
2008-12-01
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| Series: | Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/141 |