The paper examines the Romanian construction A este X tuturor Y ‘A is the X of all Y’, as in Iubirea de arginți e rădăcina tuturor relelor ‘The love of money is the source of all evils’, from a corpus-based and probabilistic perspective on proverbiality. The study approaches the construction and its contextual instantiations as a productive network whose proverbial identity emerges from evaluative force, collocational strength and distributional constraint. Drawing on a small, curated corpus of 81 attestations spanning 1581 to 2008, the analysis describes and interprets the contextual syntagmatic dynamics across the three constructional slots (A, X, Y). The results show clear asymmetries: the A-slot allows controlled variation, while the X and Y slots display high degrees of lexical constraint and collocational convergence. The discussion maps the corpus findings onto a multidimensional model of proverbiality, addressing traditionality, stability, evaluativity, generality, grounding, symbolicity, and transferability. The study suggests that proverbiality is a probabilistic effect arising from recurrent structural alignment, semantic constraint and cultural reuse over time.
In this paper, we discuss topicalization comparatives, an underrecognized subtype within the Heinean event-schema framework. Drawing on data from Nyanja, Malay, and Sinitic languages, the analysis corroborates the existence of a construction marked by a fronted topic with an obligatory standard of comparison and an opt...
This article analyzes the constitution of the enunciative subject and the polyphonic management of responsibility, examining how points of view (POV) are staged in discourse. Situated within the framework of Integrated Discourse Analysis (IDA) and building on Ducrot's polyphonic theory, Berrendonner's linguistic pragma...
Stener Carvalho Fernandes Barbosa· Revista (Con)textos Linguíst...· 0 citations
This article examines the specifics of intertextual dialogue between Vladimir Nabokov’s fiction and the oeuvre of Alexander Pushkin. The study is grounded in Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of dialogism. It posits that Nabokov’s polemical engagement with the Russian literary tradition operates along two divergent vectors. On...
Hong-Ping Zhang, A. Kovalenko· Nauchnyi Dialog· 0 citations
This article uses frame semantics, the concept of a communicative frame, us-age-based construction grammar theory, and a corpus-based quantitative methodology to examine the characteristics of constructions in Polish that contain adverbial complements (ACs), the noun rzecz ‘thing’, and the quasi-participle ujmując ‘exp...
This article analyzes the relationship between linguistic coordination, grammatical economy, and inference in A última crônica, by Fernando Sabino, from a functionalist-pragmatic perspective. The study is based on the assumption that coordination is not limited to the syntactic linking of units, but also functions as a...
Raquel Nunes Santos, Carlos Roberto de Souza Rodrigues· Revista (Con)textos Linguíst...· 0 citations
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