Seizi Iwata
List of John Benjamins publications in which Seizi Iwata is involved.
Book series
ISSN 1573-594X
Titles
English Resultatives: A force-recipient account
Seizi Iwata
The objective of this book is to develop a force-recipient account of English resultatives. Within this approach the post-verbal NP is a recipient of a verbal force, whether it is a subcategorized object or not, and the verbal force being exerted onto the post-verbal NP is responsible for bringing… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 26] 2020. xx, 549 pp.
Locative Alternation: A lexical-constructional approach
Seizi Iwata
The aim of the present volume is two-fold: to give a coherent account of the locative alternation in English, and to develop a constructional theory that overcomes a number of problems in earlier constructional accounts. The lexical-constructional account proposed here is characterized by two main… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 6] 2008. xiv, 239 pp.
Articles
2025 The manner of cutting revisited Constructions and Frames 17:2, pp. 236–277 | Article
In the generative literature, whether manner/result complementarity is correct or not has been hotly debated. This paper aims to shed new light on the debate by approaching manner/result complementarity from a different angle: polysemy. Our focal example is cut. A detailed frame-semantic… read more
2021 Another look at the interaction between verbs and constructions: The case of resultatives based on wipe Constructions and Frames 13:2, pp. 263–308 | Article
Despite the wealth of literature on English resultatives, there still remain a number of issues that have not been squarely addressed. This paper addresses two of them through a case study of resultatives based on wipe. First, while the existence of resultatives with objects not selected by… read more
2005 4. The role of verb meaning in locative alternations Grammatical Constructions: Back to the roots, Fried, Mirjam and Hans C. Boas (eds.), pp. 101–118 | Chapter