The concept of 'snowclones' has gained interest in recent research on linguistic creativity
and in studies of extravagance and expressiveness in language. However, no clear criteria …

The diachronic change of word-formation patterns is currently gaining increasing interest in
cognitive-linguistic and constructionist approaches. This paper contributes to this line of …

This paper investigates the use of German-landschaft 'landscape'and-welt 'world'as
compound constituents. Both occur frequently in metaphorical uses such as …

Diachronic studies have played an increasingly important role in recent Cognitive
Linguistics. This introductory paper provides an overview of some major lines of research in …

This paper illustrates how different methodological approaches can be combined to reveal
complex patterns of constructional variation and change in the diachronic development of …

В предлагаемой статье рассматривается функциональный потенциал девербативных
существительных в немецком языке. В статье проанализирован аспектуально …

This chapter aims to provide a combined lexicographic and corpus-based distributional
semantic analysis of the competing nominalisations V-age and V-ing. The starting point is a …

In this paper, we want to add to the comparative description of Present-day English nominal
and verbal gerundive nominalizations, by presenting the results of a quantitative, corpus …

The present study addresses a topic on the crossroads between contrastive linguistics and
translation studies as we seek to investigate how the English verbal gerund is used in …

Within the frameworks of both formalist and cognitive-functional linguistics, the form and
function of the English (nominal and verbal) gerund have long been studied from a …