During narration, speakers constantly choose appropriate referential forms (nominals or pronominals). Children may engage in this reference marking differently than adults. Discourse- or listener-oriented approaches make different predictions about referential behaviour in cognitively demanding situations: the first predicts a higher number of…

An investigation is made of the use of prefixes with borrowed verbs in Serbocroatian. The data on which it is based reflect usage in speech and journalism. One conclusion is that the adaptation of borrowed verbs to the native aspectual system is almost exclusively through prefixation. (Author/RM)

The paper demonstrates how contrastive linguistics may receive a fresh breath of life from approaching certain problems from the cognitive linguistic point of view. Cognitive linguistics is not only capable of providing contrastive linguistics with a comprehensive but coherent theoretical backbone the latter has always badly needed for its…