Polar, arctic, northern: Corpora-based study of the semantics of relative adjectives in language

• Main Authors: Vinogradova, Svetlana A., Abramzon, Tatiana Ye., Dorozhkin, Andrey G., Savateeva, Oxana V., Ganitch, Elena S., Pedko, Vitalii A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Estadual Paulista 2022
• Subjects: Cognitive semantics; Adjectives; Corpus-based study; Language; Semantic models; Semántica cognitiva; Adjetivos; Estudio basado en corpus; Lenguaje; Modelos semánticos; Semântica cognitiva; Estudo baseado em corpus; Linguagem; Modelos semânticos; Arctic; Inglés
• Online Access: https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/entrelinguas/article/view/17430

The adjectives ‘northern’, ‘polar’ and ‘arctic’ are subjected to multilateral analysis of their etymology, frequency, semantic development and current usage in language. The article reveals the common specific semantic features of the English denominal adjectives on the material of these three adjec...