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The polysemy of verbs expressing the concept SIT in English, Croatian and German

Dubravka Vidaković Erdeljić
E-mail: dvidakovic@ffos.hr
Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku
Sažetak: This paper presents the findings of a corpus-based research of the posture verb SIT in English, Croatian and German. In line with the central tenets of cognitive linguistics we argue that figurative m...

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Str. 363 - 383

Cracking the colour code: A case study of red

Draženka Molnar
E-mail: drazenka@ffos.hr
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4512-7270
Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku
Sažetak: For both physiological and psychological reasons the colour red is one of the most salient and semantically productive basic colours for human beings. Due to its stability over time, it has received a...

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The preposition and prefix nad in South Slavic languages with emphasis on Macedonian

Liljana Mitkovska
E-mail: liljana.mitkovska@fon.edu.mk
FON University, Skopje

Eleni Bužarovska
bSs. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje
Sažetak: This paper examines the senses of the preposition and prefix nad in Macedonian and the rela-tion to its equivalents in other South Slavic languages: Croatian, Serbian, and Bulgarian. The main goal of ...

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Pre-locativity as the schematic meaning of the Croatian verbal prefix pred-

Branimir Belaj
E-mail: branimir.belaj@os.t-com.hr
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2334-9673
Sveučilište u Osijeku
Sažetak: Criticising the traditional approach, according to which verbs formed with the same prefix form a cluster of homonymous relations, in this paper we introduce the concept schematic meaning which links ...

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Prefixes and prototypes: Contrasting the English verbal prefix un- and Bosnian raz-

Jasmina Hanić
Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Tuzli
Sažetak: Prefixation is traditionally studied and regarded as the process of word formation. However, in this paper we try to approach the issue of prefixation from a different perspective. This paper describe...