Cognitive Approaches to Lexical Semantics /

Cognitive Approaches to Lexical Semantics / / ed. by Hubert Cuyckens, René Dirven, John R. Taylor.

This collected volume presents radically new directions which are emerging in cognitive lexical semantics research. A number of papers re-ignite the polysemy vs. monosemy debate, and testify to the fact that polysemy is no longer simply taken for granted, but is currently a much more contested issue...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 2000 - 2014
MitwirkendeR:
Allwood, Jens,
Cuyckens, Hubert,
Dirven, René,
Eynde, Christof,
Geeraerts, Dirk,
Grondelaers, Stefan,
Janssen, Theo A. J. M.,
Lehti-Eklung, Hanna,
Michaelis, Laura A.,
Queller, Kurt,
Rice, Sally,
Silva, Augusto Soares,
Taylor, John,
Tuggy, David,
Uehara, Satoshi,
Vandeloise, Claude,
Zlatev, Jordan,
HerausgeberIn:
Cuyckens, Hubert,
Dirven, René,
Taylor, John R.,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009]
©2003
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:2003
Language:English
Series:Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] , 23
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Physical Description:1 online resource (502 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: New directions in cognitive lexical semantic research
  • Meaning potentials and context: Some consequences for the analysis of variation in meaning
  • Towards a pragmatic model of cognitive onomasiology
  • Monosemy versus polysemy
  • The grammaticalization of alltså and således: Two Swedish conjuncts revisited
  • Word meaning, sentence meaning, and syntactic meaning
  • Metonymic sense shift: Its origins in hearers' abductive construal of usage in context
  • Growth of a lexical network: Nine English prepositions in acquisition
  • Image schemas and category coherence: The case of the Portuguese verb deixar
  • The Nawatl verb kīsa: A case study in polysemy
  • A diachronic perspective on prototypicality: The case of nominal adjectives in Japanese
  • Containment, support, and linguistic relativity
  • The Dutch hedges echt and gewoon: Markers of prototypicality?
  • Polysemy or generality? Mu.
  • Backmatter

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