This paper investigates mechanisms underlying the coining of intentional morphological blends and complex clippings...
Keywords: blends, complex clippings, subtractive word-formation, uniqueness points, recognition points, recognizability, similarity, corpora
12/2006 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de GruyterThis paper is part of ongoing research on metaphor conducted from a semiotic perspective, implementing, in particular, theoretical instruments as developed by Charles S...
Keywords: metaphor, syntactics, poetic logic, similarity, body, inventiveness
08/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter