Abstract: There are many factors influencing the comprehension of idiomatic expressions in EFL context. These factors include, among others, age, context, familiarity and decomposability rate (the degree to whi...

Abstract: Departing from Talmy’s (2001b: 52) list comprising 20 English path verbs, we explore the semantic and syntactic properties of these verbs, focusing on their (im)possibility to select a prepositional p...

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...

Abstract: The study of linguistic landscape (LL) encompasses the language of public signs, commercial billboards, and other forms of written texts displayed in public (mostly urban) spaces of a particular geogr...

Abstract: This paper studies the influence of language-specific elements in visual stimuli on the reaction times of bilingual speakers at the moment of the language switch. Premises of the models of bilingual l...

Abstract: U ovome se radu analiziraju promjene glagolskih frazema u engleskom i hrvatskom jeziku koji odražavaju sheme dinamike sile. Cilj je na temelju podataka iz računalnih korpusa utvrditi na koje načine sh...

Abstract: This paper analyses metaphorical collocations of the terms law in enTenTen20, Gesetz in deTenTen20 and zakon in hrwac 2.2. from a contrastive corpus-based perspective. The hypothesis states that metap...