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Str. 325 - 352

A critical note on the evolution of social theoretical and linguistic underpinnings of contemporary discourse studies

Piotr Cap
E-mail: piotr.cap@uni.lodz.pl
University of Łodz
Sažetak: 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...

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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. 171 - 194

On the marginality of lexical blending

Rita Brdar-Szabó
E-mail: rita.brdar.szabo@gmail.com
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9582-4285
Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest

Mario Brdar
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9582-4285
Sveučilište u Osijeku
Sažetak: 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...

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Str. 35 - 51

From nominalizations to questions – Evidence from Tucanoan

Dmitry Idiatov
University of Antwerp

Johan van der Auwera
University of Antwerp
Sažetak: 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...

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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...