Hamburg Metaphor Database: Contents
394 corpus examples from six Master Theses documenting metaphorical uses of 300 distinct lexemes:
- 162 in French
- documented in 125 distinct EWN synsets
- 66 of which have a metaphorical meaning in EWN
- 59 of which have only a literal meaning in EWN
- 138 in German
- documented in 41 distinct EWN synsets (no compound splitting)
- 12 of which have a metaphorical meaning in EWN
- 29 of which have only a literal meaning in EWN
Some results
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