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This dissertation is a typologically informed, comparative study in the lexical semantics of stativity. The starting point is a tension between standard formal approaches and the cross-linguistic landscape. Formal frameworks commonly adopt on ontology with states, which function…

Human rights terms can be understood and categorised in different ways, according to various standards, in different periods of history. Studying the development of these vocabularies in their historical context provides the grounds for understanding the history of ideas involvi…

This dissertation provides a specific linguistic, cognitive, and cultural theoretical framework for analyzing emotions in general and SHAME in particular in English, Arabic, and Javanese. It argues for a universal, language- and culture-free SHAME-defining formula that is based …