Oana David
List of John Benjamins publications for which Oana David plays a role.
2021 Chapter 1. Metaphor meets grammar in a radial network of give verbs in Romance Give Constructions across Languages, Bouveret, Myriam (ed.), pp. 25–54 | Chapter
Verbs of giving exhibit similar semantics across languages, even when used to express something other than the physical act of transferring an object from a giver to a recipient. Existing studies of various dimensions of give verbs in Germanic (Joseph 2000), Slavic (Janda 1998, von Waldenfels… read more
2019 Chapter 1. MetaNet: Automated metaphor identification across languages and domains Metaphor and Metonymy in the Digital Age: Theory and methods for building repositories of figurative language, Bolognesi, Marianna, Mario Brdar and Kristina Š. Despot (eds.), pp. 23–48 | Chapter
We showcase some of the defining characteristics of the architecture of the MetaNet Automated Metaphor Identification System that make it stand out relative to other metaphor database and computational metaphor identification endeavors. The discussion focuses on the central role played by… read more
2018 Cascades in metaphor and grammar: A case study of metaphors in the gun debate MetaNet, Petruck, Miriam R.L. (ed.), pp. 85–126 | Article
2018 Formalizing contemporary conceptual metaphor theory: A structured repository for metaphor analysis MetaNet, Petruck, Miriam R.L. (ed.), pp. 37–84 | Article
2016 Cascades in metaphor and grammar: A case study of metaphors in the gun debate MetaNet, Petruck, Miriam R.L. (ed.), pp. 214–255 | Article
Public discourse on highly charged, complex social and political issues is extensive, with millions of sentences available for analysis. It is also rife with metaphors that manifest vast numbers of novel metaphoric expressions. More and more, to understand such issues, to see who is saying what… read more
2016 Formalizing contemporary conceptual metaphor theory: A structured repository for metaphor analysis MetaNet, Petruck, Miriam R.L. (ed.), pp. 166–213 | Article
This paper describes an innovative formalization of Conceptual Metaphor Theory and its implementation in a structured metaphor repository. Central to metaphor analysis is the development of an internal structure of frames and relations between frames, based on an Embodied Construction Grammar… read more
2015 Clitic doubling and differential object marking: A study in diachronic construction grammar Constructions and Frames 7:1, pp. 103–135 | Article
This work follows the progression of a grammatical construction that unifies the Romanian accusative preposition pe with a coreferential pronominal clitic, together forming the cd-pe construction. On the basis of historical texts, it is argued that these two grammatical phenomena evolved into a… read more