A corpus-based study of similes and cognate adjectival forms in English, Swedish and Croatian

This paper deals with the relationship between conventionalized similes with the structure (as) + adjective + as + NP in English, Swedish and Croatian (e.g. (as) clear as crystal, tung som bly (‘heavy as lead’), hladan kao led (‘cold as ice’)) and cognate adjectival forms, more specifically noun-adj...

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Permalink: http://skupni.nsk.hr/Record/ffzg.KOHA-OAI-FFZG:319341
Matična publikacija: Phraseology and Discourse: Cross Linguistic and Corpus-based Approaches
Pamies, Antonio ; Pazos Bretaña, José Manuel ; Luque Nadal, Lucía
Glavni autor: Novoselec, Zvonimir (-)
Ostali autori: Parizoska, Jelena (-)
Vrsta građe: Članak
Jezik: eng