Original scientific article
E-mail: alja.lipavic@um.si
Univerza v Mariboru
Abstract: The article presents an attempt at explaining the German genitive substitute von + NP as the result of a grammaticalization process. The explanation takes into account paradigmatic and syntagmatic gra...
Original scientific article
E-mail: smd@ku.edu
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas
Abstract: This paper establishes the term ORPHAN PREFIX for a Slavic prefix that no longer shares a dominant spatial meaning with its cognate preposition. Most Slavic prefixes do share such a dominant spatial m...
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 295 - 338
Metonymy and Croatian adverbial clauses
E-mail: bbelaj@ffos.hr
Filozofski fakultet Osijek
Abstract: In this article I examine some metonymic aspects of the semantics of Croatian connectives introducing adverbial clauses of cause, condition, purpose, and concession. The analysis leans on the theory o...
Original scientific article
E-mail: aleksand@hi.is
Stellenbosch University
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...
Original scientific article
Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Osijeku
Abstract: Sekundarnim se prijedlozima u ovome radu smatraju prijedlozi koji porijeklo vuku
iz neke druge vrste riječi, a u istome se obliku u suvremenome jeziku upotrebljavaju
i kao leksičke i kao gramatičke je...
