Project of Social Science Achievement Evaluation Committee of Hunan Province of China(XSP2023WXC037);Project of Teaching Reform Research of Hunan Province of China(202401001822)。
Medical English,as a specialized form of English,has attracted considerable attention due to its unique linguistic features.Grammaticalization and lexicalization represent critical mechanisms in the evolution of langu...
The word formation prefix“ke(可)”has the meanings of“can(可以)”,“make(使令)”,“worth(值得)”,and“suitable(适合)”;this paper not only studies the words of“ke(可)X”,but analyzes the generation mechanism and co...
Verb category“drink”is frequently used in people’s daily life.In this essay,the author analyses the semantic component and lexicalization pattern of English and Chinese verb category“drink”,in which the author fi...
This article is based on, and a radically revised, expanded and updated version of section523 of my forthcoming book Prag-matics(Oxford University Press,2006)
Space deixis is concerned with the specification of location in space relative to that of the participants at coding time in a speech event. Cross-linguistically, it is commonly expressed by the use of (i) demonstrati...