A Cognitive Approach to the Verb: Morphological and Constructional Perspectivs

Frontmatter -- Introduction / Simonsen, Hanne Gram / Endresen, Rolf Theil -- Section I: Basic issues -- Topic, subject, and possessor / Langacker, Ronald W. -- Language as a cognitive network / Hudson, Richard A. -- Section II: Morphological aspects of the verb -- The Norwegian verb / Endresen, Rolf Theil / Simonsen, Hanne Gram -- Building blocks or network relations: Problems of morphological segmentation / Gundersen, Helge -- Past tense acquisition in Norwegian: Experimental evidence / Simonsen, Hanne Gram -- Individual variation in past tense inflection: Experimental data from Norwegian SLI children / Bjerkan, Kirsten Meyer -- A connectionist model of past tense acquisition in Norwegian / Nøklestad, Anders -- Regular inflection in the mental lexicon: Evidence from Italian / Matcovich, Paola F. -- Section III: Constructional aspects of the verb -- Malefactive by means of GIVE / Fagerli, Ole Torfinn -- The Norwegian and Russian reflexive-middle-passive systems and Cognitive Grammar / Enger, Hans-Olav / Nesset, Tore -- Norwegian reflexive-middle-passive marker -s: Homonymy/polysemy and morphology / Enger, Hans-Olav -- Control and transitivity: A study of the Norwegian verb love 'promise' / Kristoffersen, Kristian Emil -- References -- Index