Polysemy in cognitive linguistics : selected papers from the Fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997
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Polysemy in cognitive linguistics : selected papers from the Fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997
（Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, ser. 4 . Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 177）
John Benjamins Publishing Company, c2001
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Held July 14-19, 1997, Free University of Amsterdam
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 1. Editors' Foreword
- 2. Introduction (by Cuyckens, Hubert)
- 3. The Spatial and Non-Spatial Senses of the German Preposition Uber (by Meex, Birgitta)
- 4. Scalar Particles and the Sequential Space Construction (by Huumo, Tuomas)
- 5. A Frame-Based Approach to Polysemy (by Martin, Willy)
- 6. Where Do the Senses of Cora Va'a- Come From? (by Casad, Eugene H.)
- 7. Why Quirky Case Really Isn't Quirky. Or how to treat dative sickness in Icelandic (by Smith, Michael B.)
- 8. When a Dance Resembles a Tree. A polysemy analysis of three Setswana noun classes (by Selvik, Kari-Anne)
- 9. Systemic Polysemy in the Southern Bantu Noun Class System (by Hendrikse, A.P.)
- 10. Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Polysemy (by Gibbs, Jr., Raymond W.)
- 11. The Embodied Approach to the Polysemy of the Spatial Preposition On (by Beitel, Dinara A.)
- 12. Processing Polysemous, Homonymous, and Vague Adjectives (by Brisard, Frank)
- 13. Name Index
- 14. Subject Index
- 15. Addresses
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