Introduction published in:
Emotion, Body and Mind across a Continent: Figurative representations of emotions in Australian Aboriginal languages
Edited by Maïa Ponsonnet, Dorothea Hoffmann and Isabel O'Keeffe
[Pragmatics & Cognition 27:1] 2020
► pp. 1–19

Introduction

Grammar, culture, and emotion tropes

| The University of Western Australia | Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language | The University of Sydney
| University of Oregon
| The University of Sydney
Article outline
  • 1.State of the art
  • 2.Typological cohesion
  • 3.A framework
  • 4.Research questions
    • 4.1Grammatical constraints on figurative representations of emotions
      • 4.1.1Noun incorporation
      • 4.1.2Coverb/generic verb constructions
    • 4.2Inheritance, contact and figurative representations of emotions
  • 5.Summary of contributions
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 22 September 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.00010.int
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