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...

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...

Abstract: The present study – developed within the cognitive framework – provides a description and explanation of the semantic potential offered by the Basse Mandinka BANTA construction (i.e. a verbal gram for...

Abstract: The order of the constituents within a coordinated NP construction is in theory open, i.e. either constituent can occupy either the initial or the final position. When it comes to specific realization...

Abstract: U članku se raspravlja o komplementima pridjevskih predikata uvedenih pomoću prijedloga for i of. U literaturi je uobičajena praksa da se za prijedložni izraz s for kaže kako uvodi subjekt infinitiva ...

Abstract: In this paper we postulate the existence of two high-level metonymies, ACTION FOR PROCESS and ACTION FOR (ASSESSED) RESULT, that we believe correlate respectively with cases of the causative/inchoativ...

Abstract: This paper discusses the results of a contrastive analysis of subject-verb inversion (SVI) in English and Macedonian, a South Slavic language. We look at sentences, typically encoding thetic statement...