Peter A. Machonis

List of John Benjamins publications in which Peter A. Machonis is involved.

Journal

Lingvisticæ Investigationes

International Journal of Linguistics and Language Resources

Edited by Jorge Baptista, Cédrick Fairon, Natalia Grabar and Corinne Rossari

ISSN 0378-4169 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9927

Title

À la recherche de la prédication: Autour des syntagmes prépositionnels

Sous la direction de Christiane Marque-Pucheu, Fryni Kakoyianni-Doa, Peter A. Machonis et Harald Ulland

Une thématique commune, le statut prédicatif de certains syntagmes prépositionnels dans différentes langues, fédère les dix études rassemblées dans le présent recueil qui tire son originalité du sujet lui-même. À ce jour, en effet, rares sont les études qui ont abordé la nature prédicative du… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 32] 2016. xiii, 200 pp.

Articles (5) | Order by:

Machonis, Peter A. 2016 Variability of be Prep frozen expressions: “At-sea” inspection schemes to “in a haze” that’s invading my brain À la recherche de la prédication: Autour des syntagmes prépositionnels, Marque-Pucheu, Christiane, Fryni Kakoyianni-Doa, Peter A. Machonis et Harald Ulland (dir.), pp. 125–140 | Article

In an attempt to explore the adjectival/adverbial dichotomy of predicative prepositional phrases (PPP), we classified 400 English be Prep C expressions and examined four properties: (a) quantifying adverb insertion (e.g., how ahead of his time), (b) intensifier adverb insertion (e.g., very much in… read more

Machonis, Peter A. 2009 Compositional phrasal verbs with up: direction, aspect, intensity Actes du «27e colloque international sur le lexique et la grammaire» (L'Aquila, 10-13 septembre 2008). Première partie, De Gioia, Michele (dir.), pp. 253–264 | Article

This study examines a corpus of 300 compositional phrasal verbs in English using the particle up. Whereas frozen phrasal verbs clearly do not have the same meaning without the particle and must be listed in the lexicon grammar of idiomatic expressions (e.g., break up the audience “cause to laugh”),… read more

Machonis, Peter A. 2008 Disambiguating phrasal verbs 25th Lexis and Grammar Conference, Mirto, Ignazio Mauro (ed.), pp. 200–212 | Article

Machonis, Peter A. 2004 Nominalizations of English Neutral Verbs Lexique, Syntaxe et Lexique-Grammaire / Syntax, Lexis & Lexicon-Grammar: Papers in honour of Maurice Gross, Leclère, Christian, Éric Laporte, Mireille Piot and Max Silberztein (eds.), pp. 413–421 | Article

This article explores the use of three light or support verbs of English, give, make, and have, as they co-occur with the nominalizations associated with the class of English neutral verbs (537 verbs). Neutrality, also known as the ergative construction or the causative alternation, is present when… read more

Machonis, Peter A. 1997 Neutral Verbs in English: A Preliminary Classification Lingvisticæ Investigationes 21:2, pp. 293–320 | Article

This article presents a first attempt at systematically classifying neutral verbs in English. Neutrality, also known as the ergative construction or the causative alternation, is present when the following equation holds: (1) N0 V N1 = N1 V In the following sentences, for example: (2) a. Max chimed… read more