Review of Bouso, Tamara. 2021. Changes in Argument Structure: The Transitivizing Reaction Object Construction. Bern: Peter Lang.

ISBN: 978-3-034-34095-3. https://doi.org/10.3726/b17960

Keywords: reaction objects, transitivity, Late Modern English

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Published
2022-05-14
How to Cite
Gregersen, S. (2022). Review of Bouso, Tamara. 2021. Changes in Argument Structure: The Transitivizing Reaction Object Construction. Bern: Peter Lang . Research in Corpus Linguistics, 10(1), 192-204. https://doi.org/10.32714/ricl.10.01.10