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Gapped coordinations in English: Form, usage, and implications for linguistic theory

This paper reports the results of a usage-based study of gapping (as in “I ate fish, Bill [ ] rice, and Harry [ ] roast beef”), one of the most extensively studied syntactic constructions in English...

Keywords: gapping, English coordination, information flow, clarity, stylistics, corpus linguistics

00/0000 | Corpus Linguistics and Lingustic Theory, Walter de Gruyter
Metaphor and convention

This article argues that lexical metaphors should be seen as graded: they differ in their conventionalized ability to activate concepts from the source domain...

Keywords: lexical metaphor, conceptual metaphor, conventionality, lexical semantics, corpus linguistics, collocation, metaphorical strength

03/2007 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de Gruyter