Cognitive Semantics and Structural Semantics

TL;DR: In this article, Copular constructions have been investigated in both old and middle English, with special attention paid to the loss of a function of a copula, i.e., becoming old.

TL;DR: The authors argue that the assumption of a core spatial meaning is not supported by diachronic data, as there is no evidence that the oldest recorded uses of to were ever restricted to a spatial configuration.

TL;DR: This paper proposed the incorporation of sociocultural theory and linguistic relativity as a novel research approach in second language acquisition (SLA) in Japanese learners of English and English learners of Japanese.

TL;DR: A critical discussion of problems dealing with lexical meaning and the nature of semantic oppositions in European structural linguistics is discussed, in order to subsequently analyse the efforts which have been made to resolve them via the integration of grammatical meaning.