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Typological Interpretation of Differences between Chinese and English in Grammatical Metaphor
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Yang, Yanning – Language Sciences, 2008
This paper provides a typological interpretation of differences between Chinese and English in grammatical metaphor (GM), a phenomenon arising from the interaction of semantics and lexicogrammar and extending the meaning potential in a language. This paper first describes typological features in Chinese and English in terms of the three variables…
Descriptors: Semantics, Grammar, Figurative Language, Language Classification