Another Facet of Literary Similes : A Study of Noun+Colour Term Adjectives
Similes can be expressed not only by using comparatives but also through noun+colour term (CT) adjectives such as “lily-white” or “hearse-black”. This work studies such adjectives in a corpus of British prose fiction from the 19th- and 20th-century in terms of their structure and context of use. Mor...
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Cercle linguistique du Centre et de l'Ouest - CerLICO
2017-02-01
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/corela/4817 |
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