Cognitive linguists are bound by the cognitive commitment, which is the commitment to
providing a characterization of the general principles governing all aspects of human …

This book fills a gap in lexical morphology, especially with reference to analogy in English
word-formation. Many studies have focused their interest on the role played by analogy …

The aim of this study is to explore the possibility of identifying speaker stance in discourse,
provide an analytical resource for it and an evaluation of the level of agreement across …

When we think about paradoxes, it is important to think about how we think about
paradoxes. As previous scholars have pointed out, whether an individual is aware of a …

Findings from five experiments support the view that negation generates sarcastic utterance-
interpretations by default. When presented in isolation, novel negative constructions …

In this paper, we investigate the interpretation of negated antonyms. A sentence such as
Peter is not tall can be understood as meaning either that Peter is not tall tout court or that …

Expert wine tasters have a greater ability than non-experts to discriminate between and
evaluate the sensory properties of wine. In this paper we explore non-experts' …

Four experiments and 2 corpus-based studies demonstrate that negation is a determinant
factor affecting novel nonliteral utterance-interpretation by default. For a nonliteral utterance …

After considering the pervasiveness of same/different relationships in Psychology and the
experimental evidence of their perceptual foundation in Psychophysics and Infant and …

Experimental studies demonstrate that contrast helps toddlers to extend the meanings of
novel adjectives. This study explores whether antonym co-occurrence in spontaneous …