The phone makes us scream: corpus study of English and Russian

This study explores English and Russian speech verbs with phone prepositional phrases (PPs). It investigates two hypotheses: 1) A phone PP produces an independent construction and 2) A phone PP can be freely added to any speech verb. Two constructions in English and two constructions in Russian a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Julia Kuznetsova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Oslo 2010-12-01
Series:Oslo Studies in Language
Online Access:https://journals.uio.no/osla/article/view/61