Cognitive linguistics is purported to be a usage-based approach, yet only recently has research in some of its subfields turned to spontaneous spoken (versus written) language data. The collection of
BackgroundWord frequency is the most important variable in language research. However, despite the growing interest in the Chinese language, there are only a few sources of word frequency measures ava
This article analyses, within the framework of cognitive linguistics, the use of some WATER metaphors in the phraseology of three Balkan languages, Albanian, Macedonian and Modern Greek. Water, which
This article provides a comprehensive overview of approaches and directions in Russian word-formation research (derivatology) from the mid-20th to early 21st century. It examines structural-semantic,
