Why Pasta Boils but Anger Doesn't: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Italian Verbs and Emotions
Despite the large amount of research on Italian syntax, I have identified one phenomenon not accounted for in current literature. In English, emotions are typically expressed using verbs mapped onto basic, universal elements (fire, air, and water). I hypothesized this was due to the intangibility, a...
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The University of Arizona.
2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/578960 |