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Cognitive theory of metaphor and idiom analysis
Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Russian Language, Department of Experimental Lexicography, Moscow
Abstract: We wish to establish to what extent the methods of analysis developed within the
framework of the Cognitive Theory of Metaphor (CTM) can be applied to idiom
analysis. Conventionalised figurative metap...
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E-mail: josko_zanic@yahoo.com
Nezavisni istraživač
Abstract: In this paper Gärdenfors’s geometric approach to meaning in natural language is compared to Jackendoff's algebraic one, and this is done against the backdrop of formal semantics. Ultimately, the paper...
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On the origins of the epistemic, evidential, and subjectivity meanings in the mental state predicates: The case of Dutch
E-mail: jan.nuyts@uantwerpen.be
University of Antwerp
Abstract: This paper aims to contribute to the debates about the nature of the speaker-related meanings of the mental state predicates, on the basis of a diachronic corpus study into the semantic evolution of f...