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Peer reviewedFrense, J.; Bennett, P. – Language Sciences, 1996
Analyzes numerous examples of English and German verbs with respect to alternations they undergo and concludes that the semantic classes of verbs that undergo a particular alternation differ between these two languages but that there are some semantic constraints on this variation. The article stresses the limited nature of the study. (Seven…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, German, Language Variation
