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Str. 325 - 352
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
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
E-mail: andrason@sun.ac.za
Stellenbosch University
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
E-mail: rita.brdar.szabo@gmail.com
Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest
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. 87 - 107
Pattern versus process concepts of grammar and mind: A cognitive-functional perspective
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
E-mail: ida.raffaelli@ffzg.hr
Sveučilište u Zagrebu
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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University of Antwerp
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. 187 - 204
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
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...