This article deals with the semantic diversification of a word family of compound nouns with the central motivating element -scape (a bound stem/final combining form/affixoid originating in the noun landscape). The research on a sample of 180 -scape compounds revealed a rapid ...

This paper proposes a pragmatic reading of Junot Díaz’s short story “How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie” by making use of Cultural Quotient (CQ, a/k/a Cultural Intelligence) a new branch of academics that draws from the fields of linguistics, psychology,&...

The literary language of Gerald Durrell attracts the reader’s attention by a complex structure of sentences with enormous occurrence of non-finite clauses, as well as verbless clauses. Constructions of this type have the function of various clause elements in the superordinate clause an...