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Particularités motivationnelles du syntagme prédicatif métaphorisé
Motivation peculiarities of the metaphorical predicative syntagm

Author(s): Lesya Korpan
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: predicative syntagm; metaphor; motivation; context; sense

Summary/Abstract: Metaphor has been attracting linguists’ attention for years, where investigation palm was transferred to a nominal metaphor. Our study aims at describing the metaphorical syntagms, especially a predicative syntagm (verbal), and revealing a motivation-demotivation of an element choosing a metaphorical context where semantic and syntactic properties are seen.

  • Issue Year: 14/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 62-70
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: French