A contrastive view of adjectives in Croatian, Polish and English: subjectification as a local phenomenon

A study of English adjectives (Athanasiadou 2006) suggested that subjectification (defined as the degree to which the conceptualizer plays a role in construing the objective scene ; Langacker 2000) may be helpful in examining the various uses of adjectives in English. In this paper we attempt to do...

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Matična publikacija: Cognitive Studies
11 (2011), str. 31-52
Glavni autori: Stanojević, Mateusz-Milan (-), Kryzan-Stanojević, Barbara (Author), Parizoska, Jelena
Vrsta građe: Članak
Jezik: eng
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