With the increasing demand for composite materials by the industry, the adhesive joints emer ge as an attractive alternative to traditional mechanical joints. The latter require as a preliminary step, the drilling of the laminates with consequent damage to the…

This dissertation sets out to examine the conceptual domains of CHANGE and
POSSESSION by selecting two main verbal classes, namely entity-specific change-ofstate verbs for the domain of CHANGE and contribute verbs for that of POSSESSION.
The most important step consisted…