This chapter is a corpus-based quantitative investigation of an alternation between clausal and nominal complements observed for complex causal adpositions in Polish. Constructional alternations represent an excellent example of analogy and contrast in language. Not only do they encode… read more
This study employs corpus-based quantitative methods to investigate the interaction between the semasiological structure (polysemy) of a single verb and the onomasiological (near-synonymous) structuring of the dative alternation in English and Polish. More precisely, the verbal category examined… read more
The present study investigates the adjectival profiling of shame from a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective. This concept, overarching the field of negative self-evaluative emotions, is operationalized through two lexical categories (‘shame’ and ‘embarrassment’) that are comparable… read more
This study focuses on the conceptual category of mirativity and its constructional construal in English. We propose an operationalization of mirativity with a view to investigating the phenomenon within the usage-based quantitative methodology of multifactorial analysis (Geeraerts, Grondelaers, &… read more
Subjectivity and intersubjectivity have long been recognized as central to the understanding of the relations between language, mind and society. They arise in an interactive world for the mind of the individual and shape his/her (inter)personal reality. In present-day linguistics, there are two… read more
This study focuses on the conceptual category of mirativity and its constructional construal in English. We propose an operationalization of mirativity with a view to investigating the phenomenon within the usage-based quantitative methodology of multifactorial analysis (Geeraerts, Grondelaers, &… read more
The aim of the present chapter is to investigate the semasiological structure of the Polish verb myśleć ‘to think’ relative to the construal imposed by its prefixes. It juxtaposes the results of cognitive linguistic corpus-based introspective analysis with the results of a series of statistical… read more