Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics : Selected papers from the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997 PDF
Edited by Cuyckens Hubert Cuyckens, Zawada Britta E. Zawada
Part of the Current Issues in Linguistic Theory series
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In Cognitive Linguistics, polysemy is regarded as a categorizing phenomenon; i.e., related meanings of words form categories centering around a prototype and bearing family resemblance relations to one another. Under this polysemy = categorization view, the scope of investigation has been gradually broadened from categories in the lexical and lexico-grammatical domain to morphological, syntactic, and phonological categories. The papers in this volume illustrate the importance of polysemy in describing these various categories. A first set of papers analyzes the polysemy of such lexical categories as prepositions and scalar particles, and looks at the import of polysemy in frame-based dictionary definitions. A second set shows that noun classes, case, and locative prefixes constitute meaningful and polysemous categories. Three papers, then, pay attention to polysemy from a psychological perspective, looking for psychological evidence of polysemy in lexical categories.
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:324 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Publication Date:13/07/2001
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- ISBN:9789027283696
