This article provides a detailed analysis based on corpus evidence of the multiple senses of the English verbs thread and wing and the Spanish verbs hilar and aletear. Although these verbs derive from nouns with similar or identical referential content, the figurative extensions of their basic meanings are quite different and can be seen to constitute more than one single continuum of senses. Rather, different branches or strands of figuratively related senses can be discerned, with major shifts in meaning often being associated with particular phraseological or grammatical patterns. The findings of this contrastive analysis are discussed in relation to the learning of the semantic potential of target language words in foreign langu...
Today linguistics is technologically driven. This is why learner corpora (LC) are gaining interest, ...
The purpose of this research was to explore the kind of information Spanish-speaking 3-year-old chil...
The construction of a clause in a foreign language demands a strategic change, if the target languag...
This article provides a detailed analysis based on corpus evidence of the multiple senses of the En...
As shown by research conducted in the fields of corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics and second lan...
Although still somewhat in its infancy, metaphor awareness in the teaching and learning of foreign l...
As shown by research conducted in the fields of corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics and second lan...
Although still somewhat in its infancy, metaphor awareness in the teaching and learning of foreign l...
Although still somewhat in its infancy, metaphor awareness in the teaching and learning of foreign l...
This paper is part of the ACTRES project on contrastive linguistics University of León(Spain), which...
In this large-scale corpus study, we explore how direct speech is portrayed in English and Spanish S...
Idioms are frequently used in any language and thereby it is important to investigate how these ling...
In language teaching circles it is widely recognised that English is a very idiomatic language. But ...
Idioms are frequently used in any language and thereby it is important to investigate how these ling...
In natural contexts, children are exposed to the many senses of highly polysemous words from early a...
Today linguistics is technologically driven. This is why learner corpora (LC) are gaining interest, ...
The purpose of this research was to explore the kind of information Spanish-speaking 3-year-old chil...
The construction of a clause in a foreign language demands a strategic change, if the target languag...
This article provides a detailed analysis based on corpus evidence of the multiple senses of the En...
As shown by research conducted in the fields of corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics and second lan...
Although still somewhat in its infancy, metaphor awareness in the teaching and learning of foreign l...
As shown by research conducted in the fields of corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics and second lan...
Although still somewhat in its infancy, metaphor awareness in the teaching and learning of foreign l...
Although still somewhat in its infancy, metaphor awareness in the teaching and learning of foreign l...
This paper is part of the ACTRES project on contrastive linguistics University of León(Spain), which...
In this large-scale corpus study, we explore how direct speech is portrayed in English and Spanish S...
Idioms are frequently used in any language and thereby it is important to investigate how these ling...
In language teaching circles it is widely recognised that English is a very idiomatic language. But ...
Idioms are frequently used in any language and thereby it is important to investigate how these ling...
In natural contexts, children are exposed to the many senses of highly polysemous words from early a...
Today linguistics is technologically driven. This is why learner corpora (LC) are gaining interest, ...
The purpose of this research was to explore the kind of information Spanish-speaking 3-year-old chil...
The construction of a clause in a foreign language demands a strategic change, if the target languag...