10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ZEUGMATIC»
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The Semantics of Polysemy: Reading Meaning in English and ...
If Tina and the disaster are identical, or if the disaster is understood as a situation
involving Hank and Tina, then the sentence sounds less zeugmatic than if the
disaster referred to is something else (a ill-advised foray onto the stock market, ...
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The Handbook of English Linguistics
been painting and so have I is non-zeugmatic if, for example, I have been
painting the walls a plain color and Iane has been painting a freehand
ornamental frieze on the wall, but zeugmatic if I have been painting stripes on the
road or ...
Bas Aarts, April McMahon, 2008
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Extended Axiomatic Linguistics
Firstly, there is the question of the status of zeugmatic utterances. I suspect that
zeugmatic utterances are to be regarded as odd because they are not strictly
speaking utterances at all. That is to say, an utterance “John and his driving
licence ...
For the zeugmatic, anomalous reading to arise, the two interpretations that are
evoked simultaneously need to be semantically distinct. Therefore, the possibility
of constructing a zeugmatic sentence provides a way of testing whether particular
...
M. Lynne Murphy, Anu Koskela, 2010
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Polysemy : Theoretical and Computational Approaches: ...
Thirdly, zeugmatic effects are more salient in some types of context than in others
. Geeraerts (1993: 245), quoting Deane (1988), gives the following example,
where (6) is markedly more zeugmatic than (5): (5) The arm of the ocean
resembles ...
Yael Ravin, Claudia Leacock, 2000
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Finding Metaphor in Grammar and Usage: A methodological ...
For instance, consider the difference in zeugmatic effect in (4a—b): (4) a. b. The
giant put his arm into that of the ocean. The arm of the ocean resembles that of a
giant. When two senses are tested for polysemy by means of a zeugma test that ...
And thus we see that a phrase (“to wash one's teeth and one's face”) can be very
zeugmatic in one language (English), can have a faintly zeugmatic flavor in
another language (French), and can be totally nonzeugmatic in a third language
...
Douglas Hofstadter, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Emmanuel Sander, 2013
D. A. Cruse. continua, two readings which are close together on the continuum
can be coordinated without zeugmatic incompatibility (this is the semantic
parallel to mutual intelligibility and interbreeding), whereas readings which are
far apart ...
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Digest and Decisions of the Employees Compensation Appeals ...
Dr. Johnson stated that appellant's right zeugmatic area had partially collapsed
and contained a horizontal scar measuring one and a half inches from the infra-
orbital position. She noted that he also had a decreased right nasolabial fold with
...
Labor Dept., Employees' Compensation Appeals Board, 2010
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The pulpit commentary, ed. by H.D.M. Spence and J.S. Exell. nT
Note the Zeugmatic use of the word returned as applied here, as well as in ch. i.
22, not only to Naomi, but also to Ruth. It is thus used on the same Zeugmatic
principle as the word die in Gen. xlvii. 19: "Wherefore shall we die before thine
eyes, ...
Henry Donald M. Spence- Jones, 1881
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ZEUGMATIC»
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How Lincoln Used Words To Get His Way (EXCERPT)
... by the people, for the people,” its most resonant coinage, manages to be tricolonic, zeugmatic, and epistrophic all at the same time—yet sounds clear as day. «Huffington Post, May 12»
NN Special: A candid interview with Joe Perry
I fractured my zeugmatic bone in the 3nd quarter. One side of my face was caved in, but I didn't come out of the game, despite the pleas of my teammates to seek ... «Niners Nation, May 11»
Amenable Women, By Mavis Cheek
Her concise, ironic and zeugmatic style is a sustaining joy on every page: you want to read whole paragraphs aloud to anyone who'll listen. And you don't want it ... «Independent, Mar 08»
