The semantics of the BCS and Bulgarian motion verbs ‘doći’ and ‘dojda’ - ‘to come, arrive’: a contrastive corpus-based study

The verbs ‘doći’ in Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian (= BCS) and ‘dojda’ in Bulgarian (= Blg.) are among the most frequent motion verbs. They are used in both concrete contexts (of human motion and motion of various objects) and metaphorical contexts in which features of concrete motion are transferred in...

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Main Authors: Ljiljana Saric, Ivelina Tchizmarova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Oslo 2014-07-01
Series:Oslo Studies in Language
Online Access:https://journals.uio.no/osla/article/view/712