Peter A. Machonis
List of John Benjamins publications for which Peter A. Machonis plays a role.
Journal
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
[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 32] 2016. xiii, 200 pp.
Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
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
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
2008 Disambiguating phrasal verbs 25th Lexis and Grammar Conference, Mirto, Ignazio Mauro (ed.), pp. 200–212 | Article
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
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