Être dans tous ses états
This paper is concerned with the conceptual variation in the use of the French verb être ‘be’. Drawing on Langacker’s Cognitive Grammar and Fauconnier’s theory of mental spaces, it is shown that the internal structure of être is far from being uniform in natural language definitions. The analysis of...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive
2015-06-01
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| Series: | CogniTextes |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/cognitextes/120 |