Vol. 9. No. 1-2 (12.2008)
Original scientific article
University of Antwerp
University of Antwerp
Abstract: This paper examines question formation in the Tucanoan languages of South
America from a comparative and diachronic point of view. We argue that these
languages exhibit a historical and semantic relat...
Original scientific article
Page 53 - 85
Failing without trying
VU University Amsterdam & ILTEC, Lisboa
Abstract: The article presents an analysis of the over 12,000 occurrences of fail and failure
followed by to in the 100m-word British National Corpus. In its lexical use, fail is
a negative-implicative verb of ...
Original scientific article
Page 87 - 107
Pattern versus process concepts of grammar and mind: A cognitive-functional perspective
University of Antwerp
Abstract: This paper focuses on one element dividing Cognitive Linguistics and more traditional
functional linguistic approaches to grammar, viz. the contrast between the
construction oriented approach predomin...
Original scientific article
Page 109 - 122
Communication technologies and their influence on language: Reshuffling tenses in Croatian SMS text messaging
E-mail: mzicfuch@ffzg.hr
Sveučilište u Zagrebu
University of Zagreb
Abstract: SMS text messaging has become one of the most dominant means of communication in
Croatia. With respect to their linguistic features SMS text messages have become a
language variety in their own right,...
Original scientific article
E-mail: branimir.belaj@os.t-com.hr
Sveučilište u Osijeku
Abstract: Criticising the traditional approach, according to which verbs formed with the
same prefix form a cluster of homonymous relations, in this paper we introduce
the concept schematic meaning which links ...
Original scientific article
Page 141 - 169
Morphosemantic fields in the analysis of Croatian vocabulary
E-mail: ida.raffaelli@ffzg.hr
Sveučilište u Zagrebu
University of Zagreb
Abstract: This paper presents the morphosemantic field model, claiming that it is relevant in
the description of lexical structures in grammatically-motivated languages such as
Croatian. Arguments are presented...
Original scientific article
Page 171 - 194
On the marginality of lexical blending
E-mail: rita.brdar.szabo@gmail.com
Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest
Sveučilište u Osijeku
Abstract: In spite of a recent surge of interest in it, blending remains among the most poorly
understood and elusive word formation processes. What almost everybody seems
to be agreed on is that, although it a...
