Meri Larjavaara

List of John Benjamins publications in which Meri Larjavaara is involved.

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Larjavaara, Meri 2016 The semantic motivation of non-canonical predicative relations: The French transitive construction Atypical predicate-argument relations, Ruchot, Thierry and Pascale Van Praet (eds.), pp. 163–179 | Article
The paper discusses the semantic motivation behind the non-standard transitive usage of verbs in contemporary French. An example would be the following: On m’a démissionné hier (‘they fired me yesterday’). In the normative language variety, démissionner is used only in the intransitive construction… read more
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