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Crosscurrents And Confluences: Echoes Of Religion In Twentieth-Century Fiction, Eamon Maher
Crosscurrents And Confluences: Echoes Of Religion In Twentieth-Century Fiction, Eamon Maher
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Transitivity And The Choice Of A Preposition In Any Language, Valerie Hascoet
Transitivity And The Choice Of A Preposition In Any Language, Valerie Hascoet
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This thesis examines the question of determination of transitivity for a verb through a comparison of processes involved in English and in French. It takes in several theories belonging to the area of the syntax-semantics interface in order to understand how a predicate is construed as either intransitive or direct transitive or indirect transitive in either language.The study focuses on a corpus of verbs that present different argument structures in French and in English. It analyses the various factors that determine the choice of a transitivity status for a given predicate. It discusses whether that process of determination lies in …