Browsing by Author "Raffaelli, Ida"

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    Grammatical underpinnings of lexicalization patterns in Croatian, English and French: The case of [N PP] constructions
    (Wydawnictwo KUL, 2018) Katunar, Daniela; Raffaelli, Ida
    This paper deals with the noun-preposition [N PP] construction in Croatian and compares the construction to its counterparts in English and French. Noun – preposition relations are analyzed as grammatical relations which participate in the formation of the lexicon, i.e. as grammatical devices which are productively used as lexicalization patterns. Based on the corpus analysis, [N PP] constructions in Croatian are identified and contrasted to English and French data. Lexical status of multi-word units in Croatian is discussed, as well as the level of idiomaticity of these constructions as compared to English and French. Whereas French and Croatian employ a similar lexicalization pattern, English uses compounding. The lexicon – grammar continuum is thus observed from the perspective of syntactic structures participating in word-formation.
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    The concept of ‘touch’ in the formation of the Croatian and Turkish lexicon: The example of tactile verbs
    (Wydawnictwo KUL, 2018) Raffaelli, Ida; Kerovec, Barbara
    This paper explores the importance of the concept of ‘touch’ in the formation of the Croatian and Turkish lexicon. The main goals of the paper are 1) to investigate differences and similarities in conceptual mappings based on the concept of ‘touch’ in two typologically different and genetically unrelated languages by analyzing verbs referring to touch in Croatian and Turkish 2) to see to what extent the formation of tactile verbs differs with respect to lexicalization patterns in the two languages.