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Extragrammatical idioms

Language; Linguistics

Examples of idiomatic expressions of this kind do not obey the usual rules of grammar. An example from English is: all of a sudden . In this expression, the quantifier all is followed by a ...

Event structure metaphor

Language; Linguistics

A series of metaphors that often interact in the interpretation of utterances. The individual metaphors that make up the Event Structure Metaphor, together with linguistic examples, are shown in ...

Mental spaces theory

Language; Linguistics

A theory of dynamic meaning construction developed in particular by Gilles Fauconnier and extended in the work of Seana Coulson , Barbara Dancygier , Eve Sweetser and others. Mental spaces ...

In addition to the cross-domain mappings that conceptual metaphors bring with them, they can also provide additional, sometimes quite detailed knowledge. This is because aspects of the source domain ...

Metonymic ICM

Language; Linguistics

An ICM that comes to stand for the entire category of which it is a member. This can work in two ways. Firstly, an ICM can be a sub-category of a cluster model and come to stand for the entire ...

Metaphor from metonymy

Language; Linguistics

One way in which metaphor and metonymy can interact and thus one kind of the more general phenomenon known as metaphtonymy. In this form of interaction, a metaphor is grounded in a metonymic ...

Metaphorical extension links

Language; Linguistics

One of a number of inheritance links between constructions posited in construction grammar (2). Involves a type of inheritance (2) in which some constructions are metaphorical extensions of other ...