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Peer reviewedCornelis, Louise – Language Sciences, 1996
Investigates the differences in form and meaning between the Dutch and English passives, attributing the differences to the passive auxiliaries that signal a process and a state for Dutch and English. The article is aided by the framework of Langacker's (1991) cognitive grammar. (30 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, Dutch
Peer reviewedAijmer, Karen – Language Sciences, 1996
Presents a study based on the analysis of contrastive Swedish-English data on modal particles. The article maintains that the meaning of modal particles requires an analysis of their pragmatic aspects such as the relation between the interlocutors. The analysis most accurately accounting for the multifunctionality of the particles is based on a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
Peer reviewedFretheim, Thorstein; Vasko, Ildiko – Language Sciences, 1996
Compares the meanings of the English adverb "then," that is, at that time and after that, to their lexical equivalents in Hungarian and Norwegian, drawing conclusions in the spirit of Sperber and Wilson's relevance theory. Neither Hungarian nor Norwegian has a word that, like the English "then," neutralizes the distinction…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Bulgarian, Cognitive Processes, Contrastive Linguistics
