Linguistic categorization : prototypes in linguistic theory
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Linguistic categorization : prototypes in linguistic theory
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1989
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Bibliography: p. [257]-267
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
An introduction to the "cognitive paradigm" in linguistics. Cognitive linguistics is contrasted throughout with the assumptions of Chomskyan linguistics. With examples drawn mainly from English, the book explores the potential of the approach for the study of word meaning, syntax and phonology.
Table of Contents
- The categorization of colour
- the classical approach to categorization
- prototype categories - I and II
- linguistic and encyclopaedic knowledge
- polysemy and meaning chains
- category extension - metonymy and metaphor
- polysemous categories in morphology and syntax
- polysemous categories in intonation
- grammatical categories
- syntactic constructions as prototype categories
- prototype categories in phonology
- the acquisition of categories.
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