State-of-the-art article
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A critical note on the evolution of social theoretical and linguistic underpinnings of contemporary discourse studies
E-mail: piotr.cap@uni.lodz.pl
University of Łodz
Abstract: This paper gives a critical overview of analytical approaches dominating the field of discourse studies in the last three decades, from the perspective of their philosophical and formative bases: soci...
Original scientific article
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The EK construction in Xhosa: A cognitive account
E-mail: andrason@sun.ac.za
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch University
Abstract: Developed within the frame of cognitive linguistics, this paper argues that the entire syntactic and semantic profile of the EK gram can be unified and viewed as coherent by modeling it as a map of di...
Original scientific article
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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...
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 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
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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
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Prepositional categories and prototypes: Contrasting some Russian, Slovenian, Croatian and Polish examples
E-mail: saric@rz.uni-leipzig.de
Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas, Leipzig
Abstract: The subject of this article is the interface between the Croatian prepositions na
and u (as well as the interface between their Russian, Slovenian and Polish
equivalents), and the meaning of the prepo...