In:Metaphor Identification in Multiple Languages: MIPVU around the world
Edited by Susan Nacey, Aletta G. Dorst, Tina Krennmayr and W. Gudrun Reijnierse
[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research 22] 2019
► pp. 159–181
Chapter 8Linguistic metaphor identification in Lithuanian
Published online: 28 November 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/celcr.22.08urb
https://doi.org/10.1075/celcr.22.08urb
Article outline
- 8.1Introduction
- 8.2Operational challenges: Lithuanian dictionaries
- 8.2.1Dictionaries and corpus of Lithuanian
- 8.2.2Cross-referencing
- 8.2.3Absence of senses
- 8.2.4Obsolete or dialectal basic senses
- 8.2.5Conflated concrete and abstract senses
- 8.3Challenges to MIPVU application in Lithuanian: Grammatical cases and derivational morphology
- 8.4Illustrations of MIPVU application in Lithuanian
- 8.4.1Two cases of straightforward application of MIPVU
- 8.4.2Grammatical case: From non-metaphorical to metaphorical
- 8.4.2.1The locative case
- 8.4.2.2The instrumental case
- 8.4.2.3The dative case
- 8.4.3Potential metaphoricity of derivational affixes and the reflexive particle
- 8.5Concluding remarks: Possible adjustments of MIPVU to Lithuanian
- 8.6Reliability tests
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