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Str. 383 - 421

The EK construction in Xhosa: A cognitive account

Alexander Andrason
E-mail: andrason@sun.ac.za
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8507-9824
Stellenbosch University

Mawande Dlali
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8507-9824
Stellenbosch University
Sažetak: 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...

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Str. 87 - 107

Pattern versus process concepts of grammar and mind: A cognitive-functional perspective

Jan Nuyts
University of Antwerp
Sažetak: 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...

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Str. 141 - 169

Morphosemantic fields in the analysis of Croatian vocabulary

Ida Raffaelli
E-mail: ida.raffaelli@ffzg.hr
Sveučilište u Zagrebu

Barbara Kerovec
University of Zagreb
Sažetak: 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...

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Str. 187 - 204

Prepositional categories and prototypes: Contrasting some Russian, Slovenian, Croatian and Polish examples

Ljiljana Šarić
E-mail: saric@rz.uni-leipzig.de
Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas, Leipzig
Sažetak: 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...

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Str. 557 - 574

The language of information technology: Figurative use of computer terms

Sanel Hadžiahmetović Jurida
E-mail: sanel.h.jurida@untz.ba
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0833-5510
Univerzitet u Tuzli
Sažetak: The rapidly emerging terminology associated with the Internet and its use result in highly figurative use of the terminology in this domain (the Internet), and its supporting technology (the computers...

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Str. 161 - 186

NSM within the cognitive linguistics movement: Bridging some gaps

Marija M. Brala
Sveučilište u Trstu i Sveučilište u Rijeci
Sažetak: Ever since the Chomskyan views revolutionised the scientific study of language, we have been expecting to see groundbreaking results relative to the workings of the human language faculty. Unfortunate...

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Str. 295 - 306

Metaphor and metonymy in legal texts

Adisa Imamović
E-mail: adisa.imamovic@untz.ba
Sveučilište u Tuzli
Sažetak: Legal discourse has been studied so far by numerous linguists and legal experts. Linguistic studies have predominantly focused on stylistic elements of the legal register, such as morphological and sy...