In:Personification in Language and Thought: Conceptual models, lexicogrammatical structures, and distributional patterns in Hungarian
Gábor Simon
[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research 27] 2026
► pp. 87–141
Chapter 4The lexicogrammar of personification
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Article outline
- 4.1The lexicogrammatical approach — a brief theoretical introduction
- 4.2The grammar of personification — from descriptive
to cognitive approaches - 4.3Personifications in the corpus — frequency and distribution
- 4.4Personification and word class in the corpus
- 4.5The constructions of personifications — lexicogrammatical
patterns
- 4.5.1Personifications as idiomatic word-combinations
- 4.5.2The n-gram approach
- 4.5.3Semantic relations in multi-word personifications
- 4.5.4Complex personifications
- 4.5.5Constructions of personification — a three-dimensional proposal
- 4.6Summary
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