The colourful causal construction. A corpus-based cross-linguistic analysis of its form and function in Dutch, English and French

Previous research has shown that colours are used in many languages to express emotions. This study aims to provide a cross-linguistic constructional analysis of the Colourful Causal Construction (CCC) (e.g., she is red with anger) in which colour-emotion associations play a central role. A co...

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Main Authors: Fiona Poncin, Kristel Van Goethem
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université de Lille 2023-07-01
Series:Lexique
Online Access:http://www.peren-revues.fr/lexique/index.php?id=902