Just in time for Christmas, the #snowclones are back! In our new #OpenAccess paper, part of a cool special issue on new approaches to #ConstructionGrammar, Tobias Ungerer and I compare the [X is the new Y] construction in English, German and Spanish https://turia.uv.es/index.php/qfilologia/article/view/28712
Contrastivo es el nuevo negro: un estudio translingüístico de un “snowclone” en inglés, alemán y español | Quaderns de Filologia - Estudis Lingüístics

Hartmann & Ungerer (2024) is the new Hartmann & Ungerer (2023)! (It's still the same paper on #snowclones, but now it's part of a journal issue, so if you want to tear Tobias' and my arguments apart, you can do so using exact page numbers now :) ) https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226723000117
Attack of the snowclones: A corpus-based analysis of extravagant formulaic patterns | Journal of Linguistics | Cambridge Core

Attack of the snowclones: A corpus-based analysis of extravagant formulaic patterns - Volume 60 Issue 3

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“Of all the papers I’ve written, this one - joint work with the great Tobias Ungerer - is clearly one of my favorites, so I’m happy it’s finally out, #openaccess in the Journal of Linguistics: Attack of the #snowclones https://t.co/6cepjCCDwe”

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Of all the papers I’ve written, this one - joint work with the great Tobias Ungerer - is clearly one of my favorites, so I’m happy it’s finally out, #openaccess in the Journal of Linguistics: Attack of the #snowclones https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226723000117
Attack of the snowclones: A corpus-based analysis of extravagant formulaic patterns | Journal of Linguistics | Cambridge Core

Attack of the snowclones: A corpus-based analysis of extravagant formulaic patterns - Volume 60 Issue 3

Cambridge Core
We may not ❤️ the new "We ❤️ NYC" logo, but we definitely [heart] the slogan's formula. My latest story for @medium looks at nearly half a century of "We [Heart} X."
#snowclones
#slogans
https://wordworking.medium.com/the-heart-of-the-matter-d29808ddddb8?sk=0a162714068995545deba11121f371e8
The [Heart] of the Matter - Nancy Friedman - Medium

In 1976, New York designer Milton Glaser sat in the back seat of a taxi and arranged three capital letters and a stylized red heart into one of the most effective slogans in contemporary branding…

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