How fishy does it smell when it smells fishy? A study on the Portuguese olfactory verb cheirar

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Abstract

This paper proposes to make a thorough description of the verb cheirar: the syntactic constructions in which it occurs, the idioms it enters, as well as the inferential, metaphorical and subjectivity values involved.
Original languageEnglish
Pages834-835
Number of pages2
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Event49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea – SLE 2016 - Naples, Italy
Duration: 31 Aug 20163 Sept 2016

Conference

Conference49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea – SLE 2016
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityNaples
Period31/08/163/09/16

Keywords

  • olfactory perception
  • linguistic representation
  • verb
  • linguistic change
  • Linguateca project

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