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Peer reviewedHasegawa, Yoko – Language and Communication, 1993
Using framework of prototype semantics, TE-constructions (type of verbal construct in Japanese), are categorized according to underlying metaphors and related to central TE-construction in which K- 1K- indicate both motion and direction in physical space. Through descriptions, discussions, and examples, it is demonstrated that no adequate…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Japanese, Language Research, Semantics
Peer reviewedWeiner, E. Judith; DePalma, Paul – Language and Communication, 1993
Describes a category of riddles based on lexical ambiguity and uses category theory to illustrate the function of the accessibility hierarchy in riddling. A discussion of riddles and parallelism (the tendency to stay on the same syntactic, semantic, pragmatic track while processing language) shows how parallelism partially accounts for how the…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Language Processing, Lexicology, Linguistic Theory
