Vol. 18. No. 1 (10.2017)
Original scientific article
E-mail: kaz.zisin@gmail.com
Kansai Gaidai University
Abstract: This case study with Japanese lexical V-V compounds reveals descriptive and conceptual utility of negation. The compounds are a very popular and controversial target of research where headedness plays...
Original scientific article
Page 25 - 49
It goes without saying (though I will say it anyway)
E-mail: tgradeca@knjiga.ffos.hr
Sveučilište u Osijeku
University College of London
Abstract: It is not very frequently assumed that negation may play an active role in achieving specific conceptual frames, but as claimed by Langacker (2008) or Lakoff (2004), language enables the actual physic...
Original scientific article
Page 51 - 82
Evaluating knighthood through the discourse functions of negation in Le Morte DArthur by Malory
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Abstract: The paper explores medieval knighthood as a complicated matrix of various cultural, historical, and ethical concepts. We hypothesize that we can access the way people conceptualized the chivalric idea...
Original scientific article
Page 83 - 100
Over- and out- as negatively-oriented markers
Université Bordeaux Montaigne
Abstract: In this paper, I address the issue of negation through two markers, verbal prefixes over- and out- which do not have an intrinsic negative meaning but which act as negatively-oriented markers. In the ...
Original scientific article
Page 101 - 123
Genitive of negation in the Croatian language
E-mail: diana.stolac@ri.t-com.hr
Sveučilište u Rijeci
Abstract: A direct object in Croatian is an object in the accusative case or an object in the genitive case which is interchangeable with the accusative. There are two types of direct object in the genitive cas...
Original scientific article
Page 125 - 144
Lexical bleaching of the verbal construction fail to x: A contrastive corpus-based study
E-mail: andrej.stopar@ff.uni-lj.si
Sveučilište u Ljubljani
Abstract: The English verbal construction fail to x allows two interpretations: in the first, the verb has the full lexical meaning of not being successful in what you are trying to achieve, whereas in the seco...
Original scientific article
E-mail: lstrmelj@unizd.hr
Sveučilište u Zadru
Abstract: The article deals with the development of negation in biblical English in the period from the eleventh to the seventeenth century. It explores the morphosyntactic features of negative clauses in Late ...
Original scientific article
Page 159 - 180
Pleonastic negation from a cross-linguistic perspective
E-mail: izovko@ffzg.hr
Sveučilište u Zagrebu
Sveučilište u Ljubljani
Abstract: In recent linguistic theory, pleonastic negation is treated either as an instance of a lexically present but semantically vacuous negation, often placed in relation to negative polarity (e.g. Portner ...
