Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics

Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics
Author :
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 324
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9789027236838
ISBN-13 : 9027236836
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics by : H. Cuyckens

Download or read book Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics written by H. Cuyckens and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics Related Books

Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: H. Cuyckens
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In Cognitive Linguistics, polysemy is regarded as a categorizing phenomenon; i.e., related meanings of words form categories centering around a prototype and be
Polysemy
Language: en
Pages: 437
Authors: Brigitte Nerlich
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-05-12 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

About fifty years ago, Stephen Ullmann wrote that polysemy is 'the pivot of semantic analysis'. Fifty years on, polysemy has become one of the hottest topics in
The Semantics of Polysemy
Language: en
Pages: 504
Authors: Nick Riemer
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-22 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book, addressed primarily to students and researchers in semantics, cognitive linguistics, English, and Australian languages, is a comparative study of the
Cognitive Linguistics
Language: en
Pages: 374
Authors: William Croft
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-01-22 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Cognitive Linguistics argues that language is governed by general cognitive principles, rather than by a special-purpose language module. This introductory text
Cognitive Approaches to Lexical Semantics
Language: en
Pages: 513
Authors: Hubert Cuyckens
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-23 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This collected volume presents radically new directions which are emerging in cognitive lexical semantics research. A number of papers re-ignite the polysemy vs