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Cognitive theory of metaphor and idiom analysis

Dmitrij Dobrovol’skij
E-mail: dmitrij.dobrovolskij@assoc.oeaw.ac.at
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4531-6968
Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Russian Language, Department of Experimental Lexicography, Moscow

Elisabeth Piirainen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4531-6968
Sažetak: 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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On the origins of the epistemic, evidential, and subjectivity meanings in the mental state predicates: The case of Dutch

Karolien Janssens

Jan Nuyts
E-mail: jan.nuyts@uantwerpen.be
University of Antwerp
Sažetak: 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...

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The geometry vs. the algebra of meaning: Gärdenfors vs. Jackendoff

Joško Žanić
E-mail: josko_zanic@yahoo.com
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Sažetak: 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...