What’s Dog Got to Do With It? Motivation Behind Denominal (Animal) Verbs

This paper investigates the motivation behind denominal conversion of animal nouns to verbs as well as their resultant senses. Upon critical consideration of previous accounts of animal verb senses and their possible sources, the argument is put forward that animal verbs are not uniform in their sem...

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Main Authors: Alisa Egorova, Hans-Georg Wolf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Lodz University Press 2023-12-01
Series:Research in Language
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Online Access:https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/research/article/view/21573
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