Binominal constructions with metaphorical quantifiers in Russian: “vsplesk ėmocij i volna pozitiva”
The paper provides a usage-based description of left-headed Russian binominals of the type [N1[metaphorical quantifier]N2GEN] (e.g. vsplesk ėmocij ‘a surge of emotions’, volna pozitiva ‘a wave of positivity’), where N1 is used metaphorically and tends to ‘grammaticalize’ into a quantifier and/or in...
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| Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2023-01-01
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| Series: | Studi Slavistici |
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| Online Access: | https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/ss/article/view/12323 |