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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Université de Lille
2023-07-01
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Series: | Lexique |
Online Access: | http://www.peren-revues.fr/lexique/index.php?id=902 |