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Typological parameters of genericity [PDF]
, 2000 Different languages employ different morphosyntactic devices for expressing genericity. And, of course, they also make use of different morphosyntactic and semantic or pragmatic cues which may contribute to the interpretation of a sentence as generic ...
Behrens, Leila
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Emergence of Social Reality in the Ontological model of the Lexical Concepts and Constructions.
, 2017 As argued by the cognitive linguistic theories (Langacker 2008), language is a symbolic tool that enables human representation and the categorization of the world. This implies that language(s) conveys the knowledge about the world, but also models our representation of the world (Searle 2010:61, Casasanto 2016). This paper addresses the possibility to
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An Account of English YES/NO Interrogative Sentences within ARTEMIS
Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos, 2017 As stated in Periñán-Pascual and Arcas Túnez (2010, p. 2671) FunGramKB´s lexical and grammatical levels are grounded in sound linguistic theories, allowing the system to capture syntactic-semantic generalizations which are able to provide both ...
María Auxiliadora Martín Díaz
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Like-simile and metaphor in cooperation: from expressing similarities to expressing contrasts
Language and Semiotic StudiesCognitive-oriented work on simile has developed out of attempts to pinpoint features distinguishing simile and metaphor. This development has had such consequences as 1) focusing on simile as an analogy-based process and 2) giving very little attention ...
Reda Ghsoon
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'Should conditionals be emergent ...': asyndetic conditionals in English and German as a Challenge to Grammaticalization Research [PDF]
, 2010 The present article examines asyndetic or conjunctionless conditionals in German and English. According to Jespersen’s Model (1940), this construction arose diachronically from a paratactic discourse sequence with a polar interrogative, but more recently
Van den Nest, Daan
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Lexical typology : a programmatic sketch [PDF]
, 1997 The present paper is an attempt to lay the foundation for Lexical Typology as a new kind of linguistic typology.1 The goal of Lexical Typology is to investigate crosslinguistically significant patterns of interaction between lexicon and ...
Behrens, Leila, Sasse, Hans-Jürgen
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arXiv admin note: This paper has been withdrawn by arXiv due to disputed and unverifiable ...
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Psych-Verbs and Lexical Economy [PDF]
, 2015 Psych-verbs have been a touch-stone to linking-theories, which assume that case selection is determined by thematic roles. Though psych-verbs share the same thematic grid (experiencer and stimulus), they show different case frames.
Klein, Katarina, Kutscher, Silvia
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Language Sciences, 2014 AbstractThis work concerns the lexical richness of Beijing Mandarin speakers measured by entropy. The data used for the study are the Beijing Mandarin Spoken Corpora, a conversational and spontaneous speech corpus of contemporary Beijing Mandarin speakers.
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