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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811452403321

Titolo

The lexical typology of semantic shifts / / edited by Päivi Juvonen, Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

3-11-061067-1

3-11-039306-9

3-11-037767-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (608 p.)

Collana

Cognitive Linguistics Research, , 1861-4132 ; ; Volume 58

Classificazione

ET 425

Disciplina

401.43

413.028

Soggetti

Semantics, Historical - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- 1. “The lexical typology of semantic shifts”: An introduction -- 2. Meaning change and semantic shifts -- 3. Semantic shifts as sources of enantiosemy -- 4. A Frame-based methodology for lexical typology -- 5. Corpus methods for the investigation of antonyms across languages -- 6. Studying colexification through massively parallell corpora -- 7. Polysemy in action: The Swedish verb slå ‘hit, strike, beat’ in a crosslinguistic perspective -- 8. Making do with minimal lexica. Light verb constructions with make/do in pidgin lexica -- 9. Extended uses of body-related temperature expressions -- 10. The semantic domain of emotion in Eskimo and neighbouring languages -- 11. Motivational scenarios and semantic frames for social relations in Slavic, Romance and Germanic languages – friends, enemies, and others -- 12. Tree, firewood and fire in the languages of Sahul -- 13. Investigating lexical motivation in French and Italian -- 14. Types of motivation in folk plant taxonomies -- 15. Differences and interactions between scientific and folk biological taxonomy -- 16. Holistic motivation: Systematization and application to the Cooking domain -- 17. Motivation by formally analyzable terms in a typological perspective: An assessment of the



variation and steps towards explanation -- Subject index -- Language index -- Author index

Sommario/riassunto

The volume focuses on semantic shifts and motivation patterns in the lexicon. Its key feature is its lexico-typological orientation, i.e. a heavy emphasis on systematic cross-linguistic comparison. The book presents current theoretical and methodological trends in the study of semantic shifts and motivational patters based on an abundance of empirical findings across genetically, areally and typologically diverse languages.