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The status of nominal sub-categories: Exploring frequency densities of plural -s 名词子类别的现状:复数-s的频率密度探讨

Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/gcla-2022-0004

Alexander Rauhut

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No big deal: Situation-backgrounding uses of the Polish dative reflexive pronoun sobie/se 没什么大不了的:情景背景下波兰语与格反身代词sobie/se的使用

Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/gcla-2022-0005

Piotr Wyroślak

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Editorial: Cognitive Linguistics as an interdisciplinary endeavour 社论:认知语言学作为一门跨学科的努力

Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/gcla-2022-0001

Beate Hampe

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Cognitive Linguistics meets multilingual language acquisition: What pattern identification can tell us 认知语言学与多语语言习得:模式识别能告诉我们什么

Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/gcla-2022-0011

S. Hartmann, Nikolas Koch, Antje Endesfelder Quick

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Exploring the conceptualisation of locative events in French, English, and Dutch: Insights from eye-tracking on two memorisation tasks 探索法语、英语和荷兰语中位置事件的概念化:来自两项记忆任务的眼动追踪的见解

Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/gcla-2022-0007

Mégane Lesuisse

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How vector space models disambiguate adjectives: A perilous but valid enterprise 向量空间模型如何消除形容词的歧义:一项危险但有效的事业

Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/gcla-2022-0002

Mariana Montes, D. Geeraerts

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Lexical Integrity: A mere construct or more a construction? 词汇完整性:仅仅是一个结构还是一个结构?

Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/gcla-2022-0009

B. Cappelle

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Extending structural priming to test constructional relations: Some comments and suggestions 将结构启动扩展到检验结构关系:一些评论和建议

Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/gcla-2022-0008

Tobias Ungerer

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Death, enemies, and illness: How English and Russian metaphorically conceptualise boredom 死亡、敌人和疾病:英语和俄语如何隐喻无聊的概念

Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/gcla-2022-0003

D. Glynn, A. Biryukova

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Constructionist approaches to creativity 创造的建构主义方法

Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/gcla-2022-0012

Thomas Hoffmann

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