... perfective verb present tense progressive semantic extension type vs. instance verb The most fundamental grammatical categories, noun and verb, are polar opposites with respect to their conceptual characterizations. At the prototype level, the spatially compact material of a physical object contrasts...

... differentiation. AR preserves internal, and in part inherited, Romani word formation procedures. Semantic extension is a means of internal lexical creativity. The characterisation of AR as a ‘mixed’ language usually takes for granted that grammatical operations are represented strictly by English structures. AR...

...The double bind between orthodoxy and intelligibility is examined further through the translating tool of semantic extension. Efforts to make the Christian message more accessible by expanding or extending the meaning of an “inherited” word confronted vast cultural differences in the realms...

... noun class noun classifier noun modifier number personal pronoun proper name prototype quantifier semantic extension unitization The term noun is used in CG for any expression that profiles a thing. ¹ So defined, it subsumes both lexical nouns and nominal...

... bridging contexts semantic change Haiman John semantic invariance semantics pragmatics semantic extension synchronic diachronic polysemy semantic relations metalinguistics semantic change bridging context Words have meanings, and these meanings can be articulated. Anna Wierzbicka, 1996...

...An analysis of the treatment of semantic extension (semantic calquing) and specialization as a translation feature in the Old Latin Gospels. Particular attention is given to the development of specialized senses, to the influence of Septuagintal Greek, and questions of collocation. semantic...

... compositionality meaning interpretation bracketing paradox semantic extension semantic scope 9.1 Semantic interpretation of morphological structure 207 9.2 Semantics and syntacticvalency 214 9.3 Polysemy 220 Summary 225 Questions 226 Summary 227 A basic idea of modern linguistics...

... of linguistic contact, such as semantic extension and matching, whereby existing words in the target language take on new characteristics from formally equivalent words in the source language. adnominal Bible breaking Gothic Bible Greek linearization New Testament particle phonology phonological...