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Patterns of usage for English SIT, STAND, and LIE: A cognitively-inspired exploration in corpus linguistics
Download2004
Posture verbs with the meanings ‘‘sit’’, ‘‘stand’’, and ‘‘lie’’ are of considerable interest within cognitive linguistics on account of the richness of the polysemy and grammaticalizations that they enter into across languages. We explore the usage of English SIT, STAND, and LIE in over a dozen...
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Patterns of usage for English sit, stand, and lie: A cognitively-inspired exploration in corpus linguistics
Download2004
Posture verbs with the meanings ‘‘sit’’, ‘‘stand’’, and ‘‘lie’’ are of considerable interest within cognitive linguistics on account of the richness of the polysemy and grammaticalizations that they enter into across languages. We explore the usage of English SIT, STAND, and LIE in over a dozen...
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2023-12-20
The topic of women's pockets often go overlooked, in this paper I will focus on pockets from 1600-1800 in Britain. I will consider the importance of pockets in women's dress and the question of ‘what relationships did women have with their clothing?’ This will include the origin and history of...
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This here thing: Specifying Morphemes an3, nai1, and mai2 in Tai Khamti Reference-point Constructions
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There are three facets to this dissertation—a descriptive analysis of the minority language Tai Khamti, a grammaticalization account of three basic morphemes in the language, and a theoretical account of how the three morphemes, and their extensions, are motivated by a conceptual reference-point...
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2020-09-08
SSHRC IG awarded 2021: Using five threads of a Métis worldview as represented by the Métis sash – geography and place, mobility, economy, daily life, and kinship relations (Macdougall, Podruchny, and St-Onge 2012), we propose research that weaves together archaeological, spatial, and historical...