Spending and wasting time: a semantic and syntactic analysis of time as a (metaphorical) resource
While one can ‘waste time’, one cannot ‘spend time’ without adding an adjunct (e.g. ‘he spent time on his homework.’) Why is this the case? In this paper, I analyse spend time and waste time, arguing that when one conceptualises the use of time as a resource, this also requires conceptualisation of...
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| Language: | English |
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Cercle linguistique du Centre et de l'Ouest - CerLICO
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| Series: | Corela |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/corela/16503 |