A Cognitive Approach to the Verb: Morphological and Constructional Perspectivs (Hardcover, Reprint 2010)

I-VI -- Introduction -- Section I: Basic issues -- Topic, subject, and possessor -- Language as a cognitive network -- Section II: Morphological aspects of the verb -- The Norwegian verb -- Building blocks or network relations: Problems of morphological segmentation -- Past tense acquisition in Norwegian: Experimental evidence -- Individual variation in past tense inflection: Experimental data from Norwegian SLI children -- A connectionist model of past tense acquisition in Norwegian -- Regular inflection in the mental lexicon: Evidence from Italian -- Section III: Constructional aspects of the verb -- Malefactive by means of GIVE -- The Norwegian and Russian reflexive-middle-passive systems and Cognitive Grammar -- Norwegian reflexive-middle-passive marker -s: Homonymy/polysemy and morphology -- Control and transitivity: A study of the Norwegian verb love 'promise' -- References -- Index