Theoretical morphology of the French verb
By: James Foley.
Series: Linguisticæ investigationes : Supplementa -- v. 1.
Publisher: J. Benjamins; John Benjamins Pub Co
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: French language -- Verb.; French language -- Morphology.
Description: "The communicative act of drawing attention to metaphor is a relatively recent topic in metaphor studies and one that has remained contentious from a cognitive perspective. This book brings philologists of ancient languages together with metaphor experts from several modalities to interrogate whether ancient and modern texts and languages draw attention to figurative tropes in similar ways. In this way, the diachronic, multimodal and pluridisciplinary contributions to this volume critically review the theoretical frameworks underpinning metaphor marking and metaphor analysis from a completely new empirical basis"--
Notes: Bibliography: p. [291]-292.