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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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: 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...

Abstract: Ausgangspunkt des vorliegenden Beitrags ist die feldmäßige Beschreibung des Passivs. Dabei erscheint es notwendig, das Passiv-Makrofeld in die Passiv-Mikrofelder 1 [– Modalfaktor] und 2 [+ Modalfaktor...