Polysemy, polyvalence, and linking mismatches: the concept of RAIN and its codings in English, German, Italian, and Spanish
Based on an ontological frame for comparative onomasiological lexicology which embeds the RAIN eventity type as an exponent-shaped activity into a general linguistic ontology as well as an ontology of motion, the words for RAIN in two Germanic and two Romance languages are compared with respect to t...
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| Language: | English |
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Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
2002-01-01
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| Series: | DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-44502002000300004&tlng=en |