The Rise of Discourse Markers, coauthored by Bernd Heine, Gunther Kaltenböck, Tania Kuteva and Haiping Long, presents an original and strongly supported alternative to accounts of the developmen...
Markedness is the observation of an encoding asymmetry in which higher complexity (both in terms of form and meaning) tends to pattern with lower frequency. Given that markedness focuses on the r...
The relationship between future time and future tense forms in Russian is complex. The forms traditionally attributed to the future tense in certain cases do not refer to future time. Those cases...
WHAT TO EXPECT FROM COGNITIVE DISCOURSE ANALYSIS? A BOOK PRESENTATION In 2020, Thora Tenbrink (University of Bangor) published a synthesis on Cognitive Discourse Analysis (CODA hereafter). She ...
This paper provides evidence that gesture promotes learning by schematizing a particular sensorimotor feeling associated with bodily action into a metaphorical representation. We analyze gestural...
This paper investigates English clippings such as prof (< professor), delish (< delicious), or condo (< condominium). Clipping is highly variable, but a growing body of evidence suggests that cli...
It is almost a truism that the capacity to define and recognize boundaries is fundamentally important to human perception and cognition: We are able to identify things because we perceive them as...
This paper provides an analysis of the aspectual properties of deictic-presentative constructions headed by It. ecco and Fr. voici/voilà. It will be shown that even though deictic pointing eleme...
Aspect and Aktionsart are both categories that codify information on the internal temporal structure of states of affairs. In traditional studies on aspectuality, a very strict distinction betwee...
From a cognitive‑semantic perspective, two important conceptual schemas underlie determiner use and the count/mass distinction in languages such as English and French, namely bounding and defin...