Olga Lovick

List of John Benjamins publications in which Olga Lovick is involved.

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Lovick, Olga 2012 Walking like a porcupine, talking like a raven: Figurative language in Upper Tanana Athabascan Endangered Metaphors, Idström, Anna and Elisabeth Piirainen (eds.), pp. 103–122 | Article
This paper investigates the cultural grounding of animal idioms describing human behavior in Upper Tanana Athabascan. Semantically, we can identify two types of idioms. Type I idioms are grounded in observations of real-life animals. They are iconic in that they are based on, and evoke, rich images. read more
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