Zeki Hamawand
List of John Benjamins publications for which Zeki Hamawand plays a role.
2024 The status of interjections in Cognitive Grammar Cognitive Linguistic Studies 11:2, pp. 274–295 | Article
This paper reflects on interjections in English. An interjection is a word or phrase that is used to express strong emotions, often suddenly, like oops when a small mistake happens, as in Oops! I typed two Ls by mistake. To provide a new picture of interjections, it embeds the analysis in… read more
2018 The status of punctuation marks in Cognitive Grammar Cognitive Linguistic Studies 5:2, pp. 189–207 | Article
This paper seeks to provide a new analysis of punctuation marks in English. To do so, it substantiates two claims of Cognitive Grammar. One claim is that the meaning of a linguistic expression is best understood in terms of the domain to which it belongs. In light of this claim, the paper argues… read more
2016 The notion of gradation in meaning: An inquiry in Cognitive Grammar Cognitive Linguistic Studies 3:2, pp. 207–232 | Article
This paper is about gradation of meaning in English, the situation in which the degree of the quality of a word increases or decreases, caused conceptually by communicative demands and expressed lexically by other words called degree adverbs. The choice of a degree adverb reflects the speaker's… read more
2003 The construal of atemporalisation in complement clauses in English Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 1, Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José (ed.), pp. 59–85 | Article