Ebook: Morphosyntactic categories and the expression of possession
Author: Kersti Börjars, David Denison, Alan Scott
- Series: Linguistik aktuell Bd. 199
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co
- City: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
- Language: English
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Frames and constructions in metaphoric language shows how linguistic metaphor piggybacks on certain patterns of constructional meaning that have already been identified and studied in non-metaphoric language. Recognition of these shared semantic structures, and comparison of their roles in metaphoric and non-metaphoric constructions, make it possible to apply findings from Frame Semantics, Cognitive Grammar andRead more...