From etymology to pragmatics metaphorical and cultural aspects of semantic structure

This book offers a new approach to the analysis of the multiple meanings of English modals, conjunctions, conditionals, and perception verbs. Although such ambiguities cannot easily be accounted for by feature-analyses of word meaning, Eve Sweetser's argument shows that they can be analyzed bot...

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Được phát hành: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1990
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