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One of the basic tenets of cognitive grammar, as developed by Langacker (1987, 1991), is that the meaning of complex lexemes can be described in terms of partial rather than full compositionality, resulting from the fact that composite expressions are frequently created by schema extension. This paper is based on the assumption that forming new words by derivation is characterised by the accommodation of the base and the affix, i.e. their reciprocal adjustment in the process of integrating them into the composite structure (Langacker 1987). The article focuses on two aspects of accommodation: profiling semantic roles and establishing new cognitive domains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article addresses the issue of hybrid regimes, specifically variety of concepts of democracies with adjectives, authoritarian regimes with adjectives and their typologies. The phenomenon of regimes between democracy and authoritarianism has been studied mostly after the end of the Cold War and the discussion has come up with a large number of new terms such as competitive authoritarianism, electoral authoritarianism, illiberal democracy, defective democracy and many others. Despite different root concepts (democracy, authoritarianism) and different adjectives (e.g. electoral, competitive, semi, defective) the whole discussion shares similar issues. The article claims that in order to understand the whole debate, it is essential to understand how the very categories work and to be clear about the definitions of democracies, since these two variables determine how the concepts are used on the ladder of generality and how their definitions are constructed, and also how far we can draw a line for democratic regimes. In spite of the pluralism of the terms and approaches, the article also argues, that we should exclude regimes characterized as hegemonic authoritarian on one side and polyarchy on the other from the discussion of the hybrid regimes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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