Figurative Meaning Construction: From Cognitive Operations to Thought and Culture
Open Linguistics, 2016 This paper examines the construction of figurative language within the approach to metaphoric complexes provided by the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM).
Reda Ghsoon
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A constructional study of the compounds of body part “Sar” (head) in Persian [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2020 This paper aims to examine the construction of the word-formation pattern [sar-X] (compounds of the body part “head”) in Persian and investigate its semantic variations, the most general schema and subschemas both synchronically and diachronically ...
Ava Imani, Adel Rafiei
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A Constructional Account of Word Formation in Persian: Evidence from Compounding [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2020 This paper is aimed at describing compound nouns and word formation in Persian from the standpoint of Cognitive Grammar (Langacker, 1991) and Construction Morphology (Booij, 2010).
Ali Safari, Leila Niknasab
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Semantic and pragmatic motivations for constructional preferences: a corpus-based study of provide, supply, and present [PDF]
, 2011 A select group of transfer verbs can enter into four different constructions: the ditransitive construction (He provided John the money), the prepositional-dative construction (He provided the money to John), a construction with a prepositional theme (He
De Clerck, Bernard +2 more
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A LEXICAL CONSTRUCTIONAL APPROACH TO ILLOCUTIONARY CONSTRUCTIONS: THE CASE OF REQUESTS
Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, 2011 The present paper focuses on the description of illocutionary constructions at level 3 of the Lexical Constructional Model (Ruiz de Mendoza & Mairal, 2007, 2008; Mairal & Ruiz de Mendoza, 2008, 2009).
Nuria del Campo Martínez
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Input effects on the acquisition of a novel phrasal construction in five year olds [PDF]
, 2012 The present experiments demonstrate that children as young as five years old (M = 5;2) generalize beyond their input on the basis of minimal exposure to a novel argument structure construction.
Boyd, Jeremy K. +3 more
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Between the historical languages and the reconstructed language : an alternative approach to the Gerundive + “Dative of Agent” construction in Indo-European [PDF]
, 2017 It is argued by Hettrich (1990) that the “dative of agent” construction in the Indo-European languages most likely continues a construction inherited from Proto-Indo-European.
Barddal, Johanna +2 more
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LEXICAL AND GRAMMATICAL MODELS OF NADIYKA GERBISH’S EPITHET CONSTRUCTIONS
Naukovì zapiski Nacìonalʹnogo unìversitetu «Ostrozʹka akademìâ». Serìâ «Fìlologìâ», 2022 The works of Nadiyka Gerbish, a young Ukrainian writer, have already gained recognition, but have little been studied. The article reveals the specifics of this author’s epithet constructions, in particular their lexical and grammatical models in the artistic discourse of short stories in the collection “Warm stories for coffee”.
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Language Value, 2019 Author/s Ignasi Navarro i Ferrando Universitat Jaume I, Spain ABSTRACT In this paper, we firstly present a tentative formalization of a Lexical Template (LT) and a meta-language for spatial particle semantics within the framework of the ...
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A Constructionist Approach to Illocution: The Case of Orders
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2013 The present contribution studies the semantic base of orders at level 3 of the Lexical Constructional Model (Ruiz de Mendoza & Mairal 2008; Mairal & Ruiz de Mendoza 2009).
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