Large-scale corpus study of 297 verb-object pairs finds metaphorical and literal usages differ in affective load and regularity but vary substantially by individual construction with no universal distinguishing pattern.
InProceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 5375–5388, Dublin, Ireland
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Floating or Suggesting Ideas? A Large-Scale Contrastive Analysis of Metaphorical and Literal Verb-Object Constructions
Large-scale corpus study of 297 verb-object pairs finds metaphorical and literal usages differ in affective load and regularity but vary substantially by individual construction with no universal distinguishing pattern.