Branimir Belaj
List of John Benjamins publications in which Branimir Belaj is involved.
Articles
2022 Verbal and situational irony: On the conceptual mechanisms underlying two patterns of irony Figurative Thought and Language in Action, Brdar, Mario and Rita Brdar-Szabó (eds.), pp. 185–212 | Chapter
Unlike metaphor and metonymy, irony has no “standardized” conceptual tools to rely on for its detection. The detection of irony proceeds entirely on-line; its comprehension does not rest on prior acquisition of conventional figures in the processes of language learning; it rests on our ability… read more
2016 The polysemy of the Croatian verbal prefix od- Review of Cognitive Linguistics 14:2, pp. 337–384 | Article
This paper explores the polysemy of the Croatian verbal prefix od- ‘(away) from’ from a Cognitive Grammar perspective (Langacker, 1987, 1991, etc.; Taylor, 2002). Despite the seemingly inordinate semantic heterogeneity of od-prefixed verbs, we argue that the different uses of od- are semantically… read more
2011 Schematic meaning of the Croatian verbal prefix iz-: Meaning chains and syntactic implications Cognitive Linguistics: Convergence and Expansion, Brdar, Mario, Stefan Th. Gries and Milena Žic Fuchs (eds.), pp. 115–150 | Article
In contrast to the traditional approach where all verbs with the same prefix form a cluster of homonymic relations, this chapter proposes a single underlying schematic meaning as more or less common to all such verbs. Although these verbs differ in their more specific individual meanings, on the… read more