Uwe Kjær Nissen

List of John Benjamins publications for which Uwe Kjær Nissen plays a role.

Articles

In this chapter, the claim that metaphors and metonymies are grounded in bodily experiences is pursued by means of a cross-linguistic analysis of the semantic field of English mouth compared to its Spanish and Danish equivalent terms, boca and mund, respectively. Pustejovsky’s (1995) ‘qualia roles’… read more
Nissen, Uwe Kjær 2002 Spanish. Gender in Spanish: Tradition and innovationGender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men, Hellinger, Marlis and Hadumod Bußmann (eds.), pp. 251–279 | Article
1.Introduction 2. Grammatical gender in Spanish 2.1 Masculine and feminine gender 2.2 Generic words and conflicts of agreement 2.3 The psycholinguistic reality of generics 3. The asymmetrical representation of women and men in Spanish 3.1 Hombre vs. mujer 3.2 … read more